Wall-induced pretransitional birefringence: A new tool to study boundary aligning forces in liquid crystals
作者： K. Miyano
DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.43.51
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摘要: A wall-induced birefringence in a nematic liquid crystal above the nematic-isotopic phase transition point has been observed for first time. It is expected that this phenomenon will provide useful tool to study nature of aligning forces at liquid-crystal--solid interfaces.
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