Unwinding of the uniform lying helix structure in cholesteric liquid crystals next to a spatially uniform aligning surface

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

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Salter, Patrick S ^a   Carbone, Giovanni ^a   Jewell, Sharon A ^b   Elston, Steve J ^a   Raynes, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNING SURFACES; DIRECTOR STRUCTURE; ELASTIC DISTORTION; EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL POLARIZING MICROSCOPIES; HELICAL STRUCTURES; HELIX AXIS; HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL MODELS; SURFACE ALIGNMENT; THEORETICAL RESULT; UNIFORM LYING HELIX;

ALIGNMENT; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SIMULATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 70449103081     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041707     Document Type: Article

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