Growth and melting of the nematic phase: sample thickness dependence of the mullins-sekerka instability

J Ignes-Mullol; P Oswald

doi:10.1103/physreve.61.3969

Growth and melting of the nematic phase: sample thickness dependence of the mullins-sekerka instability

Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics. 2000 Apr;61(4 Pt A):3969-76. doi: 10.1103/physreve.61.3969.

Authors

J Ignes-Mullol¹, P Oswald

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, 46 Allee d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France.

PMID: 11088178
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.61.3969

Abstract

In this article we report our systematic studies of the dependence on the sample thickness of the onset parameters of the instability of the nematic-isotropic interface during directional growth and melting, in homeotropic or planar anchoring.