Topological defects of cholesteric liquid crystals for volumes with spherical shape

1 January 1982

journal article
letter
Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Vol. 72 (7) , 239-246
https://doi.org/10.1080/01406568208084686

Abstract

The existence of the monopoles both with one x (+2) line and two x (+1) lines in cholesteric volumes with spherical shape is shown experimentally by microscopic observations with polarized light. The effect of disapperarnce of x lines near the cholesteric-smectic A transition is discovered.

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