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ABSTRACT An optical microscopy investigation of the SmA phase close to the nematic phase puts into evidence the interaction between focal conic domains on one hand, screw and edge dislocations on the other hand. We report here three different situations of such interactions. Our results point towards a dislocation model of the SmA → N transition.
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