Temperature dependence of refractive indices near uniaxial-biaxial nematic phase transition

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 353, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 512-515

  Santoro, P A ^a   Sampaio, A R ^a   da Luz, H L F ^a   Palangana, A J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TENSORS;

BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASE; BIAXIAL NEMATIC PHASIS; MICROSCOPIC ORDERING; OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; OPTICAL DIELECTRIC TENSOR; REENTRANT ISOTROPIC; REFRACTIVE INDEX DATA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF REFRACTIVE INDEX;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 33646097011     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2006.01.019     Document Type: Article

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