Nematic liquid-crystal alignment on stripe-patterned substrates

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

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Anquetil Deck, C ^a   Cleaver, D J ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEOTROPIC; MOLECULAR SIMULATIONS; MONODOMAINS; NANOPATTERNED SUBSTRATES; NEMATIC FILM; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; PATTERNED SUBSTRATES; STRIPE WIDTH; SURFACE PATTERNING; VERY THIN FILMS;

EID: 78651240275     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.031709     Document Type: Article

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