Diluted ferroelectric suspension of Sn2P2S 6 nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystal

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5257, Issue , 2003, Pages 7-12

  Buchnev, Olexander ^a   Glushchenko, Anatoliy ^b   Reznikov, Yurii ^a   Reshetnyak, Victor ^c   Tereshchenko, Olexander ^a   West, John ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Ferroelectric particles; Liquid crystal suspension; Nanoparticles; Nematic liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TIN COMPOUNDS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL SUSPENSIONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 1842476070     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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