Theoretical model for the discrete flexoelectric effect and a description for the sequence of intermediate smectic phases with increasing periodicity

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

Volumn 68, Issue 5 1, 2003, Pages 517031-5170316

  Emelyanenko, A V ^a,b   Osipov, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION;

ENANTIOMERS; FLEXOELECTRIC EFFECTS; MOLECULAR CHIRALITY;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0942300118     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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