Geometrical optics approach in liquid crystal films with three-dimensional director variations

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

Volumn 67, Issue 4 1, 2003, Pages 417021-4170210

  Panasyuk, G ^a   Kelly, J ^a   Gartland, E C ^a   Allender, D W ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FILMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; OPACITY; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

MULTIDIMENSIONAL OPTICS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 8444241525     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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