Unusual behaviour of binary mixtures of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals with three chiral centres

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-52

  Glogarova M ^a   Novotna V ^a   Kaspar M ^a   Hamplova V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Antiferroelectric phase; Binary mixture; Dielectric spectroscopy; Ferroelectric phase; Re entrant ferroelectric phase; Soft anti phase mode

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348002071     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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