Photopyroelectric structural and thermal characterization of first-order phase transition in liquid crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 4148-4150

  Mercuri, F ^a   Pizzoferrato, R ^a   Zammit, U ^a   Marinelli, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE TRANSITIONS; PYROELECTRICITY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL DIFFUSION;

FIRST-ORDER NEMATIC-ISOTROPIC PHASE TRANSITION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0037175976     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1524290     Document Type: Article

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