Geometric frustration in buckled colloidal monolayers

Yilong Han^1,2,(*), Yair Shokef^1,(*,+), Ahmed M. Alsayed¹, Peter Yunker¹, Tom C. Lubensky¹ and Arjun G. Yodh¹

1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
2. Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
(*) These authors contributed equally to this work.
(+) Present address: Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.


This paper has been published in Nature 456, 898 (2008).

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