Periodic lattices of frustrated focal conic defect domains in smectic liquid crystal films

Soft Matter

Volumn 8, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 4318-4326

  Zappone, Bruno ^a   Meyer, Claire ^b   Bruno, Leonardo ^a   Lacaze, Emmanuelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b Faculté des Sciences   (France)

^c INSTITUT DES NANOSCIENCES DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOCAL CONIC DOMAINS; FREE INTERFACE; HOMEOTROPIC ANCHORING; LAYERED STRUCTURES; PERIODIC LATTICES; SMECTIC LAYERS; SMECTIC-A LIQUID CRYSTALS; SOLID SUBSTRATES;

DEFECTS; LIQUID FILMS; PLASTIC FILMS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE TENSION;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 84859308716     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c2sm07207f     Document Type: Article

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