Formation of piled circular texture induced by alternating electric field in freely suspended ferroelectric liquid crystal films

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 9 A/B, 1997, Pages

  Uto, Sadahito ^a,b   Tazoh, Eisuke ^a   Ozaki, Masanori ^a   Yoshino, Katsumi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alternating applied field; Freely suspended ferroelectric liquid crystal film; Piled circular texture; Spontaneous polarization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; TEXTURES;

PILED CIRCULAR TEXTURE;

DIELECTRIC FILMS;

EID: 0031223769     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.36.l1198     Document Type: Article

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