Three-dimensional director structures of defects in Grandjean-Cano wedges of cholesteric liquid crystals studied by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 16-

  Smalyukh, I I ^a   Lavrentovich, O D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; DOPANTS; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY (FCPM); SURFACE ANCHORING;

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); ELASTICITY; FLUORESCENCE; FOCUSING; GROUND STATE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VECTORS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE;

EID: 41349099409     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.051703     Document Type: Article

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