Smectic Liquid Crystals: Materials with One-dimensional, Periodic Order
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Smectic Liquid Crystals: Materials with One-Dimensional, Periodic Order
Abstract. Smectic liquid crystals are materials formed by stacking deformable, fluid layers. Though smectics prefer to have flat, uniformly-spaced layers, boundary conditions can impose curvature on the layers. Since the layer spacing and curvature are intertwined, the problem of finding minimal configurations for the layers becomes highly nontrivial. We discuss various topological and geometri...
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عنوان ژورنال: Geometriae Dedicata
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0046-5755,1572-9168
DOI: 10.1007/s10711-006-9075-y