Dynamic light scattering study of biaxial ordering in a thermotropic liquid crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Neupane, K ^a   Kang, S W ^a   Sharma, S ^a   Carney, D ^b   Meyer, T ^c   Mehl, G H ^c   Allender, D W ^a   Kumar, Satyendra ^a   Sprunt, S ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

LIQUID CRYSTALLINE TETRAPODE; MEAN FIELD THEORY; PARAMETER RELAXATION;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 33751104750     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.207802     Document Type: Article

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