Effects of pretilt angle and anchoring energy on alignment of uniformly lying helix mode

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1184-1189

  Park, Kyoung Seok ^a   Baek, Ji Ho ^a   Lee, You Jin ^a   Kim, Jae Hoon ^a   Yu, Chang Jae ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

anchoring energy; cholesteric liquid crystals; pretilt angle; uniformly lying helix

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962048250     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2016.1162858     Document Type: Article

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