Optical gratings formed in thin smectic films frustrated on a single crystalline substrate

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

Volumn 70, Issue 1 1, 2004, Pages

  Michel, Jean Philippe ^a   Lacaze, Emmanuelle ^a   Alba, Michel ^b   De Boissieu, Marc ^c   Gailhanou, Marc ^d   Goldmann, Michel ^d,e  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CEA SACLAY   (France)

^c GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPIN COATING; SURFACE TENSION; THIN FILMS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

FOCAL CONIC DOMAINS; NEMATIC GRAIN BOUNDARIES (NGB); SMECTIC FILMS; SOLID STATE DETECTORS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749108965     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.011709     Document Type: Article

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