Ferroelectric properties in banana-shaped achiral liquid crystalline molecular systems

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters

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

  Sekine, Tomoko ^a   Takanishi, Yoichi ^a   Niori, Teruki ^a   Watanabe, Junji ^a   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Achiral molecule; Banana shaped molecule; Dielectric constant; Ferroelectric liquid crystal; Goldstone mode; Spontaneous polarization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; HYSTERESIS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PERMITTIVITY;

ACHIRAL MOLECULES; GOLDSTONE MODE;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031223797     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.36.l1201     Document Type: Article

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