Defects, Surface Anchoring, and Three-Dimensional Director Fields in the Lamellar Structure of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals as Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy

Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences

Volumn 150, Issue , 2006, Pages 205-250

  Smalyukh, I I ^a   Lavrentovich, O D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burger Vector; Cholesteric Liquid Crystal; Core Energy; Edge Dislocation; Strong Anchor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85114800239     PISSN: 01711873     EISSN: 21974179     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-31264-1_10     Document Type: Chapter

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