Simple experimental assessment of smectic translational order parameters

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

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Kapernaum, Nadia ^a   Giesselmann, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; CARBOXYLATION; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; X RAY SCATTERING;

ANTIFERROELECTRIC; CHIRAL SMECTIC; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; SMECTIC LAYERS; SMECTIC ORDERS; TRANSLATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 57949107246     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.062701     Document Type: Article

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