Ring defects in a strongly confined chiral liquid crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c Center of Excellence NAMASTE   (Slovenia)

^d JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL THICKNESS; CHIRAL LIQUID CRYSTALS; HELICAL PITCH; REGULAR ARRAY; RING DEFECTS; STABLE STATE; SURFACE-ANCHORING; THIN CELLS;

ALIGNMENT; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DEFECTS;

EID: 79952170331     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.097801     Document Type: Article

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