Formation of surface stabilised smectic phases driven by electric field under homogeneous anchoring

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 347, Issue , 2000, Pages 189-198

  Miyazaki, Toshikuni ^a,b   Yamashita, Mamoru ^a  

^a DENSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dipole dipole interaction; Electric field dipole coupling; Gay berne model; Homogeneous texture; Surface stabilised smectic phase; Symmetry breaking field for positional order

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SURFACES;

CONSTANT TEMPERATURE MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTION; GAY-BERNE SYSTEM; HOMOGENEOUS ANCHORING; SURFACE STABILISED SMECTIC PHASES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0034482712     PISSN: 1058725X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10587250008024840     Document Type: Article

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