Confinement-induced orientational order in a ferroelectric liquid crystal containing dispersed aerosils

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Cordoyiannis, George ^a   Nounesis, George ^a   Bobnar, Vid ^b   Kralj, Samo ^b,c   Kutnjak, Zdravko ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSILS; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; QUENCHED RANDOM DISORDER (QRD); SMECTIC DENSITY WAVES;

CALORIMETRY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; QUENCHING; VECTORS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 18144391231     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.027801     Document Type: Article

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