Is Curie-Weiss law valid in every ferro-to-para transition?

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Kaur, S ^a   Thakur, A K ^a   Choudhary, A ^a   Bawa, S S ^a   Biradar, A M ^a   Annapoorni, S ^b  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURIE-WEISS LAW; ELECTROCLINIC EFFECT; ELECTROCLINIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; FERRO-TO-PARA TRANSITION;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; SHRINKAGE; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 24644517932     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2042539     Document Type: Article

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