Study of nematic and smectic order fluctuations in the nematic phase through proton magnetic relaxometry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5565, Issue , 2004, Pages 209-216

  Kumar, B V N Phani ^a   Satheesh, V ^b   Venu, K ^a   Sastry, V S S ^a   Dabrowski, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cybotactic clusters; Nematic director fluctuations; Nematic order fluctuations; Pretransitional effects; Proton Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DIFFUSION; DISPERSIONS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROTONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CYBOTACTIC CLUSTERS; NEMATIC DIRECTOR FLUCTUATIONS; NEMATIC ORDER FLUCTUATIONS; PRETRANSITIONAL EFFECTS; PROTON MAGNETIC RELAXATION DISPERSION (PMRD);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 15944391319     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.581136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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