Structures and phase transitions in polar smectic liquid crystals

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

Volumn 67, Issue 4 1, 2003, Pages 417161-4171612

  Dolganov, P V ^a   Zhilin, V M ^a   Dolganov, V K ^a   Kats, E I ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^c LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; FREE ENERGY; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

CHIRALITY; SURFACE ORDERING;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0942297554     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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