Computing with liquid crystal fingers: Models of geometric and logical computation

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

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Adamatzky, Andrew ^a   Kitson, Stephen ^b   Costello, Ben De Lacy ^a   Matranga, Mario Ariosto ^b   Younger, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLISION-BASED COMPUTING; CONCAVE POLYGONS; EXPERIMENTAL LABORATORY; HALF-ADDER; THIN LAYERS; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIQUIDS;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84555178425     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.061702     Document Type: Article

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