Competing modes of instability in an electrically driven nematic liquid crystal with a small positive dielectric anisotropy

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

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Kumar, Pramoda ^a   Krishnamurthy, K S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; ELECTROCONVECTIVE STATE; FREEDERICKSZ STATE; STRONGLY LOCALIZED DYNAMICAL STATE (SLDS); VOLTAGE THRESHOLD;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33748767098     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.031705     Document Type: Article

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