title: Structural investigations on smectic blue phases.
abstract: Smectic blue phases ( BP(Sm)) are thermotropic liquid crystalline phases which exhibit both three-dimensional orientational order, such as classical blue phases, and smectic positional order. BP(Sm) appear as the three-dimensional counterpart of twist grain boundary phases. X-ray scattering and optical polarizing microscopy provide information on the hexagonal and cubic symmetries of these new phases.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, UMR 8502, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Grelet
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pansu
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: H T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Nguyen