Effect of high spontaneous polarization on defect structures and orientational dynamics of tilted chiral smectic freely suspended films

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

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Link, Darren R ^a,b   Chattham, Nattaporn ^a   Maclennan, Joseph E ^a   Clark, Noel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILM TENSION; FREESTANDING LIQUID-CRYSTAL FILMS (FSLCF); LAYER THINNING; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

CARBON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); TENSILE TESTING; THERMAL EFFECTS; THIN FILMS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349108683     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.021704     Document Type: Article

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