Measurement of twist elastic constant in nematic liquid crystals using conoscopic illumination

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 436, Issue , 2005, Pages 259/[1213]-266/[1220]

  Parry Jones, Lesley A ^a   Geday, Morten A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Conoscopy; Elastic constant; Liquid crystal; Nematic; Twist

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRODES; LIGHTING; POLYMERIZATION;

AZIMUTHAL SURFACE; CONOSCOPY; ELASTIC CONSTANT; TWIST;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33644761888     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400590955721     Document Type: Conference Paper

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