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The Philosophical Magazine: A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics
Series 8
Volume 35, 1977 - Issue 4
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Optical studies of a nematic liquid crystal with circumferential surface orientation in a capillary

D. Melzer Department of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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F. R. N. Nabarro Department of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Pages 901-906 | Received 21 May 1976, Published online: 13 Sep 2006

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Hongwen Zhang, Jianfei Li, Yanjun Zhang, Zhiguang Li & Dequan Zhang. (2021) Influence of planar anchoring on escaped-twisted configurations of liquid crystals in a cylindrical cavity. Liquid Crystals 48:5, pages 713-721.
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M. Kleman & O. D. Lavrentovich. (2006) Topological point defects in nematic liquid crystals. Philosophical Magazine 86:25-26, pages 4117-4137.
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John Hobdell & Alan Windle. (1995) Topological point defects in liquid crystalline polymers. Liquid Crystals 19:4, pages 401-407.
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D. Melzer, Annemarie van Es, F.R. N. Nabarro & Elsa Godinho. (1981) The disclination s = 1/2 at the air-nematic interface. Philosophical Magazine A 44:4, pages 835-846.
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T Dudok, I Skab, O Mys, O Krupych, Yu Nastishin, O Kurochkin, V Nazarenko, Ye Ryzhov, A Chernenko & R Vlokh. (2023) Optical vector vortices generated with circularly planar and circularly hybrid nematic cells. Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics 24:1, pages 22-45.
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A. Nych, R. Kravchuk, U. Ognysta, M. Ledney & O. Yaroshchuk. (2021) Double-twisted nematic director configurations in cylindrical capillaries with a photocontrollable angle of twist. Physical Review E 104:5.
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Jose X. Velez, Zhaofei Zheng, Daniel A. Beller & Francesca Serra. (2021) Emergence and stabilization of transient twisted defect structures in confined achiral liquid crystals at a phase transition. Soft Matter 17:14, pages 3848-3854.
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Arif Nesrullajev. (2019) Peculiarities of Defective Formations in Heterophase Regions of the Thermotropic Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals. Crystal Research and Technology 54:4, pages 1800245.
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Liang Qin & Jeff Z. Y. Chen. (2016) Recent theoretical development in confined liquid-crystal polymers. Acta Physica Sinica 65:17, pages 174201.
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Zoey S. Davidson, Louis Kang, Joonwoo Jeong, Tim Still, Peter J. Collings, Tom C. Lubensky & A. G. Yodh. (2015) Chiral structures and defects of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals induced by saddle-splay elasticity. Physical Review E 91:5.
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R. J. Ondris-Crawford, G. P. Crawford, S. Zumer & J. W. Doane. (1993) Curvature-induced configuration transition in confined nematic liquid crystals. Physical Review Letters 70:2, pages 194-197.
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G. P. Crawford, M. Vilfan, J. W. Doane & I. Vilfan. (1991) Escaped-radial nematic configuration in submicrometer-size cylindrical cavities: Deuterium nuclear-magnetic-resonance study. Physical Review A 43:2, pages 835-842.
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M Kleman. (1989) Defects in liquid crystals. Reports on Progress in Physics 52:5, pages 555-654.
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D. L. Stein. (1979) Topological theorem and its applications to condensed matter systems. Physical Review A 19:4, pages 1708-1711.
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