Focal conic flower textures at curved interfaces

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Beller, Daniel A ^a   Gharbi, Mohamed A ^a,b   Honglawan, Apiradee ^b   Stebe, Kathleen J ^b   Yang, Shu ^b   Kamien, Randall D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND TEXTURES; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; FOCAL CONIC DOMAINS; INTERFACE BEHAVIOR; MICRO-LENS ARRAYS; NANO-MANUFACTURING; QUALITATIVE FEATURES; SMECTIC-A LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROOPTICS;

TEXTURES;

EID: 84893563097     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.041026     Document Type: Article

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