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Light diffraction by acoustically induced domains in nematic liquid crystals

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The phenomenon of light diffraction by a system of linear domains formed in planar layers of nematic liquid crystals in an oscillating Couette flow, acoustically induced at sound frequencies, is investigated.

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  1. Andreev Acoustics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Shvernika 4, Moscow, 117036, Russia

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Original Russian Text © O.A. Kapustina, 2006, published in Kristallografiya, 2006, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 523–529.

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Kapustina, O.A. Light diffraction by acoustically induced domains in nematic liquid crystals. Crystallogr. Rep. 51, 490–496 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063774506030199

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