Lattice plane control of liquid crystal blue phase

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 639-645

  Yamamoto, Shin Ichi ^a,b   Haseba, Yasuhiro ^a   Higuchi, Hiroki ^b   Okumura, Yasushi ^b   Kikuchi, Hirotsugu ^b  

^a CHISSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

blue phase; lattice plane; optically isotropic liquid crystal; surface free energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878774520     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.772664     Document Type: Article

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