Structure in a confined smectic liquid crystal with competing surface and sample elasticities.

Stefan H. J. Idziak,1 Ilya Koltover,1 Jacob N. Israelachvili,2 and Cyrus R. Safinya1 1Materials Department, Materials Research Laboratory, Physics Department, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Materials Department, and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (Received 20 July 1995)