Surface-frustrated periodic textures of smectic- A liquid crystals on crystalline surfaces

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

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Zappone, Bruno ^a   Lacaze, Emmanuelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICA; MOLYBDENUM; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

2D LATTICES; AIR INTERFACES; CRYSTALLINE SURFACES; DISCLINATION LINES; DO-MAINS; FOCAL CONIC DOMAINS; HOMEOTROPIC ANCHORING; MONOSTABLE; MONOTONIC INCREASES; MUSCOVITE MICAS; OILY STREAKS; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PERIODIC TEXTURES; POLARIZING OPTICAL MICROSCOPIES; SHARP TRANSITIONS; SIMPLE MODELS;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 58149090025     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.061704     Document Type: Article

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