Confocal Raman Mapping of Colloidal Particles in Smectic a Liquid Crystals

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Ebru Buyuktanir gives a talk at the LC2CAM 08 conference about CRM and the results which include raman images of 5CB, focal conic domains of 8CB, and inverse smectic inclusions.

Manipulation of Disk-Shaped Islands and Direct Measurement of Dipolar Elastic Interaction Forces Between Islands on Freely Suspended Smectic Films Using Optical Tweezers

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Chool Soo Park gives a talk at the LC2CAM conference about his experiments involving islands on films, depolarized reflected light microscopy, and optical tweezers.