Saddle-splay-term-induced orientational instability in nematic-liquid- crystal cells and director fluctuations at substrates

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

Volumn 69, Issue 4 1, 2004, Pages

  Kiselev, A D ^a  

^a CHERNIHIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELASTIC MODULI; FREE ENERGY; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SUBSTRATES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

ANCHORING CONDITIONS; ELASTIC CONSTANT; ERICKSEN INEQUALITY; WAVE NUMBERS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749106658     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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