Dispersion of the ordinary refractive indices of smectic liquid crystals in free standing films

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

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Jaquet, R ^a   Schneider, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

INTERFERENCE SPECTRA; ORDINARY REFRACTIVE INDICES; POLARIZABILITIES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33746329885     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.011708     Document Type: Article

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