Surface ordering transitions at a liquid crystal-solid interface above the isotropic smectic-A transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Jin, T ^a   Crawford, G P ^b   Crawford, R J ^c   Zumer, S ^d   Finotello, D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Brown University   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOBIPHENYLS; DEUTERON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE LINESPLITTING; ISOTROPIC SMECTIC A TRANSITION; ORIENTATIONAL ORDER; SURFACE ORDERING TRANSITIONS;

ALUMINA; CHEMICAL BONDS; DIFFUSION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MEMBRANES; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARAFFINS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 84890251629     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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