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VOLUME 56 (1992) | ISSUE 8 | PAGE 406
Subsurface growth of smectic liquid crystals
A new mechanism is proposed for the growth of an atomically smooth face of a smectic liquid crystal. If the smectic dislocation energy is smaller than д/2 of the energy of a surface step, the growth results from the nucleation, growth, and coalescence of loop dislocations in an exponentially large layer below the surface of the smectic crystal.