Polar-horizontal versus polar-vertical reverse-tilt-domain walls: Influence of a pretilt angle below the nematic-isotropic phase transition

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

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Lee, Ji Hoon ^a   Atherton, Timothy J ^a   Kang, Daeseung ^a,b   Petschek, Rolfe G ^a   Rosenblatt, Charles ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Soongsil University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; TOPOLOGY; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

AZIMUTHAL ORIENTATION; BOUNDARY WALLS; CRITICAL VALUES; ISOTROPIC-NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITION; NEMATIC PHASE; NEMATIC PHASE TRANSITIONS; NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC PHASE TRANSITION; PLANAR ORIENTATION; PRE-TILT ANGLE; THROUGH THE WALL; TOPOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS; VERTICAL DIRECTIONS;

DOMAIN WALLS;

EID: 50049099451     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021708     Document Type: Article

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