Modeling dipolar and quadrupolar defect structures generated by chiral islands in freely suspended liquid crystal films

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

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Silvestre, N M ^a,b   Patricio P ^b,c   Telo Da Gama, M M ^a,b   Pattanaporkratana, A ^d,e   Park, C S ^d   MacLennan, J E ^d   Clark, N A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECT PAIRS; DIRECTOR FIELDS; ELASTIC ANISOTROPY; EQUILIBRIUM CONFIGURATION; LANDAU MODEL; LINEAR CHAIN; LIQUID CRYSTAL FILMS; QUADRUPOLAR INTERACTIONS; QUADRUPOLAR STRUCTURES; SMECTIC C LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DEFECT STRUCTURES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUID FILMS; PLASTIC FILMS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

DEFECTS;

EID: 70449109559     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041708     Document Type: Article

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