Light-induced changes of optical and electrical properties in bent-core azo compounds

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

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Jakli A ^a   Prasad, V ^b   Shankar Rao, D S ^b   Liao, G ^a   Janossy I ^c  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

^c WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL; DEFECT STRUCTURES; SPLAY; SUSPENDED FILMS;

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISTORTION (WAVES); ELASTICITY; IONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THIN FILMS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 37649031886     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.021709     Document Type: Article

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