Ordering effects in electric splay Freedericksz transitions

Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 285-298

  Biscari, Paolo ^a   Cesana, Pierluigi ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b SISSA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dielectric anisotropy; Freedericksz transition; Nematic liquid crystals

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; FREEDERICKSZ TRANSITION; ORDER-TENSOR THEORY;

ANISOTROPY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PERMITTIVITY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 34648814354     PISSN: 09351175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00161-007-0055-8     Document Type: Article

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