Origin of glassy dynamics in a liquid crystal studied by broadband dielectric and specific heat spectroscopy

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

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Bras A R ^a   Dionisio M ^a   Huth, H ^b   Schick, Ch ^b   Schonhals A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^c BAM FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TESTING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; GLASS TRANSITION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPECIFIC HEAT;

GLASS-FORMING NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; GLASSY DYNAMICS; SPECIFIC HEAT SPECTROSCOPY; VOGEL-FULCHER-TAMMANN FORMULA;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 34547284946     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.061708     Document Type: Article

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