Travelling polarization walls in freely suspended smectic C* films

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 244, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 347-360

  Langer, C ^a   Stannarius, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRICITY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; TORQUE;

FERROELECTRIC SWITCHING; KINK PROPAGATION; SMECTIC FILMS; TRAVELLING POLARIZATION WALLS;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 0034478508     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1080/00150190008228447     Document Type: Article

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