Is the electromechanical coupling the driving force for the perpendicular drift of first class cholesteric finger?

Journal de Physique I

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1499-1508

  Gil, L ^a,b   Thiberge, S ^a,b,c  

^a INLN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c CNRS 129   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; GLASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROTATION; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; VELOCITY;

ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLINGS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031250183     PISSN: 11554304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/jp2:1997198     Document Type: Article

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