Structure of the cholesteric focal conic domains at the free surface

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

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 3771-3782

  Meister, R ^a   Halle M A ^a   Dumoulin, H ^a   Pieranski, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243747021     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.54.3771     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. D. Sarid, Scanning Force Microscopy with Applications to Electric, Magnetic and Atomic Forces (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991).
2. P. G. de Gennes, The Physics of Liquid Crystals (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974).
3. T. Bertin-Mourot, Stage de FIUPSO, Université Paris Sud, 1994.
4. B. D. Terris, Phys. Lett.19, 85 (1992).
5. H. Dumoulin and P. Pieranski (unpublished).
6. M.-A. Hallé, Stage de ENS, Université Paris Sud, 1993.
7. Y. Bouligand, J. Phys. (Paris)34, 603 (1973).
8. Y. Bouligand, P. E. Cladis, L. Liebert and L. Strzelecki, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst.25, 233 (1974).
9. F. Livolant and Y. Bouligand, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst.166, 91 (1889).
10. A. Leforestier and F. Livolant, Liq. Cryst.17, 651 (1994).
11. T. J. Bunning, Liq. Cryst.16, 769 (1994).
12. H. Delacroix, J.-M. Gilli, I. Erk and P. Mariani, Phys. Rev. Lett.69, 2935 (1992).
13. D. W. Berreman, S. Meiboom, J. A. Zasadzinski and M. J. Sammon, Phys. Rev. Lett.57, 1737 (1986).
14. H. Dumoulin, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst.262, 221 (1995).
15. M. Kamayé, Ph.D. thesis, Université de Nice—Sophia Antipolis, 1992 (unpublished).
16. M. J. Stephen and J. P. Straley, Rev. Mod. Phys.46, 617 (1974).
17. Y. Bouligand, J. Phys. (Paris)35, 215 (1974).
18. J. Rault, in Liquid Crystals and Ordered Fluids, edited by J. F. Johnson and R. S. Porter (Plenum Press, New York, 1974), pp. 679–703.
19. R. Meister, H. Dumoulin, M.-A. Hallé and P. Pieranski, J. Phys. (France) II6, 827 (1996).
20. P. E. Cladis and M. Kléman, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst.16, 1 (1972).
21. Y. Bouligand and M. Kléman, J. Phys. (Paris)31, 1041 (1970).
22. M. Kléman, Points, Lines and Walls (John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1983).
23. N. D. Mermin, Rev. Mod. Phys.51, 591 (1979).
24. G. E. Volovik and W. P. Mineev, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz.72, 2256 (1977) [Sov. Phys. JETP45, 1186 (1977)].
25. J. Rault, Philos. Mag.28, 11 (1973).
26. J. Rault, Philos. Mag.30, 621 (1974).
27. Y. Bouligand, J. Phys. (France)33, 525 (1972).
28. P. Boltenhagen, O. D. Lavrentovich and M. Kléman, Phys. Rev. A.46, R1743 (1992).