Focal conic stacking in smectic a liquid crystals: Smectic flower and apollonius tiling

Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 499-513

  Meyer, Claire ^a   Cunff, Loic Le ^a   Belloul, Malika ^a   Foyart, Guillaume ^a  

^a Faculté des Sciences   (France)

Author keywords

Apollonius tiling,Dupin cyclides; Defects; Focal conic domains; Liquid crystals; Smectic A

Indexed keywords

APOLLONIUS TILING,DUPIN CYCLIDES; CROSSED POLARS; FOCAL CONIC DOMAINS; NUMERIC SIMULATION; SMECTIC LAYERS; SMECTIC-A; SMECTIC-A LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DEFECTS; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

TEXTURES;

EID: 79951600680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma2020499     Document Type: Article

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