Novel defect structures in a strongly confined liquid-Crystalline blue phase

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Fukuda, Jun Ichi ^a,b   Žumer, Slobodan ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE PHASE; CONFINED LIQUIDS; DISCLINATION LINES; HOMEOTROPIC ANCHORING; NOVEL STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; ORTHORHOMBIC LATTICES; PARALLEL ARRAYS; PHENOMENOLOGICAL DESCRIPTION; UNIT CELLS;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LIQUIDS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 73649138576     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.017801     Document Type: Article

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