Field-temperature phase diagrams in chiral tilted smectics, evidencing ferroelectric and ferrielectric phases

European Physical Journal E

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-328

  Marcerou, J P ^c   Nguyen, H T ^a   Bitri, N ^c   Gharbi, A ^c   Essid, S ^c   Soltani, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POLARIZATION; LINEAR COUPLING;

FERRIMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

PHASE DIAGRAMS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METHODOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHASE TRANSITION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34547858581     PISSN: 12928941     EISSN: 1292895X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2007-10195-2     Document Type: Article

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