Statics and dynamics of radial nematic liquid-crystal droplets manipulated by laser tweezers

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

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Brasselet, Etienne ^a   Murazawa, Naoki ^b   Juodkazis, Saulius ^b   Misawa, Hiroaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; POLARIZATION;

MOLECULAR REORDERING; ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42449121510     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.041704     Document Type: Article

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