Stabilizing the blue phases.
We present an investigation of the phase diagram of cholesteric liquid crystals within the framework of Landau-de Gennes theory. The free energy is modified to incorporate all three Frank elastic constants and to allow for a temperature dependent pitch in the cholesteric phase. It is found that the...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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