Control of the nematic-isotropic phase transition by an electric field

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

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Mottram, N J ^a   Care, C M ^b   Cleaver, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CONTINUUM MODEL; CRITICAL VOLTAGE; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 33750070662     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.041703     Document Type: Article

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