Liquid-crystal periodic zigzags from geometrical and surface-anchoring- induced confinement: Origin and internal structure from mesoscopic scale to molecular level

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

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Yoon, Dong Ki ^a,b   Yoon, Jinhwan ^c   Kim, Yun Ho ^a   Choi, M C ^a   Kim, Jehan ^c   Sakata, Osami ^d   Kimura, Shigeru ^d   Kim, Mahn Won ^a,e   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^b   Clark, Noel A ^b   Ree, Moonhor ^c   Jung, Hee Tae ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^d Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED FIELD; GLASS SURFACES; HOMEOTROPIC ANCHORING; HYBRID CELLS; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; MESOSCOPIC SCALE; MICROBEAM X-RAY DIFFRACTION; MOLECULAR LEVELS; OPTICAL GRATING; PATTERNED SILICON; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; POLARIZED LIGHT MICROSCOPY; RECIPROCAL SPACE; SURFACE-ANCHORING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GLASS;

BENDING (FORMING); CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GLASS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 78651302151     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.041705     Document Type: Article

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