Layer-by-Layer Surface Freezing of Freely Suspended Liquid-Crystal Films

Fluid Interfacial Phenomena

1987 • 646 citations

Critical Surface Phenomena at First-Order Bulk Transitions

1982 • 372 citations

Molecular dynamics investigation of the crystal–fluid interface. VI. Excess surface free energies of crystal–liquid systems

1986 • 371 citations

Quantized layer growth at liquid-crystal surfaces

1986 • 329 citations

Semi-infinite systems with first-order bulk transitions

1983 • 262 citations

Surface Melting and Roughening of Adsorbed Argon Films

1986 • 233 citations

Molecular dynamics investigation of the crystal–fluid interface. III. Dynamical properties of fcc crystal–vapor systems

1983 • 167 citations

Surface melting of neon and argon films: Profile of the crystal-melt interface

1988 • 135 citations

Surface-induced order and disorder: Critical phenomena at first-order phase transitions (invited)

1984 • 125 citations

X-ray and optical studies of the thickness dependence of the phase diagram of liquid-crystal films

1987 • 122 citations

Self-diffusion at a melting surface observed by He scattering

1988 • 121 citations

Surface critical phenomena at first-order phase transitions

1987 • 104 citations

Triple-point wetting and surface melting of oxygen films adsorbed on graphite

1987 • 94 citations

Wall-Induced Orientational Order of a Liquid Crystal in the Isotropic Phase—an Evanescent-Wave-Ellipsometry Study

1986 • 93 citations

Lattice theory of crystal surface melting

1987 • 90 citations

Surface Premelting of CH ₄ Thin Films

1987 • 89 citations

X-Ray Scattering Studies of the Melting of Lead Surfaces

1988 • 83 citations

Synchrotron x-ray observation of surface smectic-Ihexatic layers on smectic-Cliquid-crystal films

1987 • 82 citations

Density-functional theory of nematic and smectic-Aorder near surfaces

1988 • 75 citations

Melting of Variable-Thickness Liquid-Crystal Thin Films: A Synchrotron X-Ray Study

1982 • 66 citations

Mechanical Measurements of the Melting Transition in Thin Liquid-Crystal Films

1982 • 40 citations

Theory of smectic wetting and layering

1987 • 37 citations

Observations of the Melting Transition in Thin Lead Films

1986 • 33 citations

Surface melting and the surface phase diagram

1988 • 30 citations

Wall-Induced Orientational Order of a Liquid Crystal in the Isotropic Phase—an Evanescent-Wave-Ellipsometry Study

1987 • 6 citations