Temperature-induced sign reversal of biaxiality observed by conoscopy in some ferroelectric Sm- C* liquid crystals

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

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Song, Jang Kun ^a   Chandani, A D L ^a   Fukuda, Atsuo ^a,b   Vij, J K ^a   Kobayashi, Ichiro ^c   Emelyanenko, A V ^b,d  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NISSAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FERROELECTRICITY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

BIAXIALITY; CONOSCOPY; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TEMPERATURE INDUCED SIGN REVERSAL;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34547442835     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.011709     Document Type: Article

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