Direct measurement of surface-induced orientational order parameter profile above the nematic-isotropic phase transition temperature

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 16, 2009, Pages

  Lee, Ji Hoon ^a   Atherton, Timothy J ^a   Barna, Valentin ^b   De Luca, Antonio ^c   Bruno, Emanuela ^c   Petschek, Rolfe G ^a   Rosenblatt, Charles ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ISOTROPIC PHASE; MEAN-FIELD; NEMATIC ISOTROPIC PHASE TRANSITION; NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; NONLOCAL POTENTIALS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER PARAMETERS; SPATIAL DECAY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THIN LIQUIDS;

LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 67650333052     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.167801     Document Type: Article

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