Generation, propagation, and switching of orientational waves in photoexcited liquid-crystalline monolayers

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

Volumn 69, Issue 5 2, 2004, Pages

  Okuzono, Tohru ^a   Tabe, Yuka ^a,b   Yokoyama, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POLARIZATION; SWITCHING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MOLECULAR THEORY; ORIENTATIONAL WAVES; PHOTOEXCITATION; PHOTOISOMERIZATION;

MONOLAYERS;

EID: 37649026876     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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