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Original Articles

Size Effects on the Incommensurate Phase Transition in Thin Films

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Pages 62-69 | Received 27 Dec 2008, Published online: 20 Sep 2010
 

Abstract

The phenomenological theory of the incommensurate phase transition in thin films is presented for the case of the two-component order parameter when the Landau expansion comprises the Lifshits invariant. The distribution of the amplitude parameter over the film was obtained under the assumption of the modulation period much less than the film thickness. The size effect on the temperature of the phase transition into the incommensurate phase was considered.

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