화학공학소재연구정보센터
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.301, 397-401, 1997
Blue Phases in the Presence of Fluctuations - A One-Star Analysis
Conventional mean-field theory renders the structure of the cubic blue phases correctly, brit not their position on the phase diagram. Also it has not been possible to suppress the artificial body centered cubic structure O-5. Within the framework of the weak crystallization theory we extend the Landau-Ginzburg-de Gennes free energy by including order parameter fluctuations. Calculations that involve one star of wave vectors destabilize the formerly dominant O-5 structure.