Photoinduced effects in the vicinity of the smectic- A -smectic- CA* transition: Polarization, tilt angle, and response time studies

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Nair, Geetha G ^a   Hegde, Gurumurthy ^a   Krishna Prasad, S ^a   Lobo, Chethan V ^a   Negi, Y S ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY C MET   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; BENZENE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; PHOTOELECTRICITY;

MICROSCOPIC MODELS; RESPONSE TIME; TILT ANGLE;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 32844463080     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.011712     Document Type: Article

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