Experimental determination of Landau-expansion coefficients in ferroelectric liquid crystals

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 200, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 237-256

  Giesselmann F ^a   Heimann, A ^a   Zugenmaier, P ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ferroelectric liquid crystals; Landau theory; Phase transitions

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FREE ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; LANDAU THEORY;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0031378878     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150199708008609     Document Type: Article

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