Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties, and topological defects in the nematic phase of thermotropic bent-core liquid crystal A131

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

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Senyuk, B ^a   Wonderly, H ^a   Mathews, M ^a   Li, Q ^a   Shiyanovskii, S V ^a   Lavrentovich, O D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHORING TRANSITION; BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS; BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASE; BIAXIALITY; CORE MATERIAL; CROSSED ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; DISCLINATIONS; FREELY SUSPENDED FILM; INDUCED BIREFRINGENCE; MOLECULAR TILT; NEMATIC PHASE; NEMATIC STATE; NONSINGULAR; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; POLYCRYSTALLINE; SURFACE ALIGNMENT; SURFACE ANCHORING PROPERTIES; SURFACE EFFECT; SURFACE-ANCHORING; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

ALIGNMENT; BIREFRINGENCE; COREMAKING; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; POINT DEFECTS; SURFACES; TEXTURES; TOPOLOGY;

SURFACE DEFECTS;

EID: 78651326390     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.041711     Document Type: Article

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