Calorimetric investigations of liquid-crystal compounds exhibiting almost no layer-shrinkage behavior through the smectic-A-smectic-C* transition

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

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Ema, K ^a   Takekoshi, K ^a   Yao, H ^a   Wang, S T ^b   Huang, C C ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROCLINIC EFFECTS; LIQUID-CRYSTAL COMPOUNDS; NO LAYER-SHRINKAGE (NLS); TRANSITION TEMPERATURES;

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SHRINKAGE; SPECIFIC HEAT;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349084739     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.031706     Document Type: Article

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