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Invited Papers

The Cholesteric Blue Phase: A Progress Report

P. P. Crooker Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822
Pages 31-45 | Received 07 Mar 1983, Published online: 17 Oct 2011

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