Nematic director reorientation dynamics studied by time-resolved fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers and Short Notes and Review Papers

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 608-612

  Toriumi, Hirokazu ^a   Akahane, Tadashi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGAOKA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Director reorientation; Elastic continuum theory; FT IR; Nematic liquid crystals; Surface anchoring strength; Time resolved spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL BONDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

DIRECTOR REORIENTATION; ELASTIC CONTINUUM THEORY; SURFACE ANCHORING STRENGTH; TIME RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0032001969     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.37.608     Document Type: Article

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