Dynamics of electro-optical switching in the antiferroelectric B2 phase of an achiral bent-core shape compound

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2 1, 2003, Pages 217061-217068

  Blinov, Lev M ^a   Barnik, Mikhail I ^a   Soto Bustamante, E ^b   Pelzl, Gerhard ^c   Weissflog, Wolfgang ^c  

^a SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c Institute of Physical Chemistry   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; GROUND STATE; SWITCHING; VISCOSITY;

BENT-CORE SHAPE MOLECULES;

ANTIFERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0037718615     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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