In search of a chiral smectic liquid-crystal state with a macroscopic spontaneous ferroelectric polarization

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 4405-4408

  Toledano P ^a   Figueiredo Neto, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; THEORY; VECTORS;

FERROELECTRIC POLARIZATION; LANDAU THEORY; ORGANIC FERROELECTRICS; POLYPHILIC MOLECULE;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031359681     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4405     Document Type: Article

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