Splay-bend periodic deformation in nematic liquid crystal slabs

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

Volumn 67, Issue 6 1, 2003, Pages

  Barbero, G ^a   Lelidis, I ^a,b   Zvezdin, A K ^a,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Universite de Picardie Jules Verne   (France)

^c PROKHOROV GENERAL PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREE ENERGY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POISSON EQUATION; SURFACE TENSION; TENSORS; VECTORS;

ELASTIC ENERGY; FLEXOELECTRIC FREE ENERGY; HOMEOTROPIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; SPLAY-BEND PERIODIC DEFORMATION; SURFACE ELASTIC CONSTANTS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749108818     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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