Virtual surfaces, director domains, and the Fréedericksz transition in polymer-stabilized nematic liquid crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 2986-2988

  Kossyrev, Pavel A ^a   Qi, Jun ^a   Priezjev, Nikolai V ^a   Pelcovits, Robert A ^a   Crawford, Gregory P ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL FIELDS; FINITE ANCHORING ENERGY; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS; POLYMER CONCENTRATIONS; SWITCHING DYNAMICS;

CRYSTALS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; POLYMERS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79956022899     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1515136     Document Type: Article

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