Dielectric behavior of ferroelectric liquid crystals in the vicinity of the transition into the hexatic phase

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1541-1550

  Rychetsky I ^a   Pociecha, D ^b   Dvorak V ^a   Mieczkowski, J ^b   Gorecka E ^b   Glogarova M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

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EID: 0000553848     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.479413     Document Type: Article

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