Visualisation methods for complex nematic fields

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1759-1768

  Čopar, Simon ^a,b   Porenta, Tine ^b   Žumer, Slobodan ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

defects; nematic liquid crystals; simulation; visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890567737     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.853109     Document Type: Article

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