Mechanism of homeotropic alignment of a doped liquid crystal

Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1512-1515

  Beica, T ^a   Moldovan, R ^b   Zgura, I ^a   Frunza, S ^a   Poterasu, M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

^b ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Alignment; Liquid crystals; Surface tension

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISPERSIONS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE TENSION;

HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT; ORIENTATION MECHANISM; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL MECHANISMS; PHYSICO-CHEMICALS; SOLID SURFACE; SOLID SURFACE TENSION; STERIC MODELS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33748066308     PISSN: 14544164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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