Polarization splay as the origin of modulation in the B1 and B7 smectic phases of bent-core molecules

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

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Coleman, D A ^a   Jones, C D ^a   Nakata, M ^a   Clark, N A ^a   Walba, D M ^a   Weissflog, W ^b   Fodor Csorba, K ^c   Watanabe, J ^d   Novotna, V ^e   Hamplova, V ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLARIZATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FERROELECTRIC LAYERING; HIGH RESOLUTION X RAY SCATTERING DIFFRACTION;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 38949130563     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.021703     Document Type: Article

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