Phase transition between two types of smectic a phases driven by an electric field in quite thin system

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2910-2916

  Miyazaki, Toshikuni ^a   Yamashita, Mamoru ^b  

^a DENSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dipole dipole interaction; Freedericksz transition; Gay Berne model; Homeotropic anchoring; Hysteresis; Molecular dynamics simulation; Surface stabilized smectic phase; Symmetry breaking field for positional order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034369755     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.69.2910     Document Type: Article

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