Electric-field-induced polar biaxial order in a nontilted smectic phase of an asymmetric bent-core liquid crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Shimbo, Yoshio ^a   Gorecka, Ewa ^b   Pociecha, Damian ^b   Araoka, Fumito ^a   Goto, Masanao ^a   Takanishi, Yoichi ^a   Ishikawa, Ken ^a   Mieczkowski, Jozef ^b   Gomola, Kinga ^b   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; PERMITTIVITY; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BIAS FIELDS; CONTINUOUS MOLECULAR REORIENTATION; OPTICAL SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION; THERMAL AGITATION;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33748715354     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.113901     Document Type: Article

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