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Planar anchoring of nematic 4-n -pentyl-48-cyanobiphenyl on selfassembled monolayers formed from alkanethiols on gold William J. Miller and Nicholas L. Abbotta) Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616
Jonathan D. Paul and Mara G. Prentissb) Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
~Received 13 June 1996; accepted for publication 10 July 1996! We report measurements of planar anchoring of nematic 4-n-pentyl-48-cyanobiphenyl ~5CB! on self-assembled monolayers ~SAMs! formed from CH3~CH2!m SH (7