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Session N30: Liquid Crystals: Experiments

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Noel Clark, University of Colorado at Boulder
Room: Colorado Convention Center 304


Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:00AM - 8:12AM

 N30.00001: Alignment of Liquid Crystals by Nano- and Micro -Scale Topographic Patterns Made by Nanoimprint Lithography
Youngwoo Yi , Michi Nakata , Alexander Martin , Noel Clark , Vaibhav Khire , Christopher Bowman

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:12AM - 8:24AM

 N30.00002: Absence of uniform nematic phase for thin 8CB films
Ergys Subashi , Rafael Garcia

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:24AM - 8:36AM

 N30.00003: Electrically controlled negative refraction in a uniaxial nematic liquid crystal
Oleg D. Lavrentovich , Oleg P. Pishnyak

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:36AM - 8:48AM

 N30.00004: Effect of the Functionalization Compound on the Magnetic Nanoparticle -- Smectic-A Liquid Crystal Interaction: A Phenomenological Model
Luz J. Martinez-Miranda , Lynn K. Kurihara

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
8:48AM - 9:00AM

 N30.00005: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:00AM - 9:12AM

 N30.00006: Broadening the Smectic C* Sub-Phases by Chiral and Achiral Doping
J. Kirchhoff , L.S. Hirst

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:12AM - 9:24AM

 N30.00007: Use of the chiral smectic A liquid crystal electroclinic effect for sensitive measurement of enantiomeric excess
Duong Nguyen , Lior Eshdat , Arthur Klittnick , Renfan Shao , David Walba , Noel Clark

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:24AM - 9:36AM

 N30.00008: Topological Defect Structure and Annihilation in High-Polarization Freely Suspended Films
Chenhui Zhu , Apichart Pattanaporkratana , Joseph Maclennan , Noel Clark

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:36AM - 9:48AM

 N30.00009: Interactions between Structurally Chiral Islands on Freely-Suspended Smectic C films
Apichart Pattanaporkratana , Cheol Park , Joseph Maclennan , Noel Clark

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
9:48AM - 10:00AM

 N30.00010: A New Bistable SmA Display Mode
Hui-Yu Chen , Renfan Shao , Eva Korblova , David Walba , Wei Lee , Noel A. Clark

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:00AM - 10:12AM

 N30.00011: The frequency-dependent electrooptic response of the electroclinic effect in deVries SmA materials
Christopher D. Jones , Ute Dawin , Frank Giesselmann , Noel Clark , Per Rudquist

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:12AM - 10:24AM

 N30.00012: Effect of Polarization on the Interactions of SmC* Islands on Freely-Suspended Films
Cheol Park , Apichart Pattanaporkratana , Joseph Maclennan , Noel Clark

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:24AM - 10:36AM

 N30.00013: Combination of separate smectic-C-alpha phases in binary mixtures
Zengqiang Liu , Bradley McCoy , Suntao Wang , Ron Pindak , Wolfgang Caliebe , Philippe Barois , Paulo Fernanders , H.T. Nguyen , C.S. Hsu , C.C. Huang

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:36AM - 10:48AM

 N30.00014: Evidence of Broken Reciprocity in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
Nithya Venkataraman , Michele Moreira , Bahman Taheri , Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10:48AM - 11:00AM

 N30.00015: Lasing Thresholds of Obliquely Pumped Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Lasers
Michele Moreira , Bahman Taheri , Peter Palffy-Muhoray , Vladimir Belyakov

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