Ambidextrous bend patterns in free-standing polar smectic- C PF films

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

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Eremin, Alexey ^a   Nemeş, Alexandru ^a   Stannarius, Ralf ^a   Weissflog, Wolfgang ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRALITY; ENANTIOMERS; FERROELECTRIC FILMS; MOLECULES; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

ALTERNATING BENDS; CHIRAL SYMMETRY BREAKING; FERROELECTRIC SMECTIC; MUTUAL ORIENTATIONS; ORDER PARAMETERS; POLAR MOLECULES; POSSIBLE MODELS; SPONTANEOUS FORMATIONS; STRIPED PATTERNS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 58149231275     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.061705     Document Type: Article

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