Influence of flexoelectricity on the smectic-nematic transition: Can "bend grain boundary phases" appear?

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 412, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Kitzerow, Heinz Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flexoelectricity; Liquid crystals; Phase transitions

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BENDING (DEFORMATION); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); FREE ENERGY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STABILIZATION;

ABRIKOSOV FLUX LATTICES; EDGE DISLOCATIONS; FLEXOELECTRICITY; SMECTIC-NEMATIC TRANSITION;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 12844256461     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400490431822     Document Type: Conference Paper

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