Smectic A liquid crystal configurations with interface defects

DOI10.1002/MMA.221MaRDI QIDQ2726640zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Carme Calderer, Chun Liu, Karl Voss

Publication date 14 July 2002

Published in Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/mma.221

zbMATH Keywords

chevron texturedefect structurefocal conic configurationfunnel-shaped domainnon-concentric annulinon-parallel platesplanar energy minimizing configurationself-similar configurationssmectic A liquid crystalstability conditionwedge

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Liquid crystals (76A15) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

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• Temperature and external field-driven microrelief at free surface of smectic-A liquid crystal
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