Resonant Carbon K -Edge Soft X-Ray Scattering from Lattice-Free Heliconical Molecular Ordering: Soft Dilative Elasticity of the Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal Phase

Zhu, Chenhui; Tuchband, Michael R.; Young, Anthony; Shuai, Min; Scarbrough, Alyssa; Walba, David M.; Maclennan, Joseph E.; Wang, Cheng; Hexemer, Alexander; Clark, Noel A.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.147803

Title: Resonant Carbon $K$ -Edge Soft X-Ray Scattering from Lattice-Free Heliconical Molecular Ordering: Soft Dilative Elasticity of the Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal Phase

Journal Article · Thu Apr 07 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.147803· OSTI ID:1246176

Zhu, Chenhui; Tuchband, Michael R.; Young, Anthony; Shuai, Min; Scarbrough, Alyssa; Walba, David M.; Maclennan, Joseph E.; Wang, Cheng; Hexemer, Alexander; Clark, Noel A.

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