Liquid-crystalline Casimir effect in the presence of a patterned substrate

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 4 1, 2004, Pages

  Karimi Pour Haddadan, F ^a,b   Schlesener, F ^a,b   Dietrich, S ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EXTRAPOLATION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; THERMOANALYSIS;

CONTINUUM THEORY; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE CASIMIR EFFECT; SURFACE FREE ENERGY; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 37649031134     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.041701     Document Type: Article

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