Effect of thickness of liquid crystalline layer on the thermotropic and thermodynamical properties of nematic-isotropic liquid and istropic liquid-nematic phase transitions

International Journal of Modern Physics B

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 3383-3394

  Polat, Ömer ^a   Nesrullajev, Arif ^a   Oktik, Şener ^a  

^a MUGLA SITKI KOCMAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Heterophase region; Liquid crystal; Nematic; Phase transition; Surface effect; Texture

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749027493     PISSN: 02179792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0217979206034765     Document Type: Article

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