Ferroelectric polysiloxane liquid crystals with 'de Vries'-type smectic A*-smectic C* transitions

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 883-887

  Rossle M ^a   Zentel, R ^a   Lagerwall, J P F ^b   Giesselmann, F ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSILOXANE;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MODEL; OPTICS; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 2942564163     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678290410001695668     Document Type: Article

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