Structural transitions in thin free-standing films of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal exhibiting the smectic-Cα* phase in the bulk sample

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

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Dolganov, P V ^a   Suzuki, Yoshiichi ^b   Fukuda, Atsuo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b New Technology Department   (Japan)

^c SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANTIFERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PLASTIC FILMS; SURFACE REACTIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

A PHASE; ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; OPTICAL REFLECTIVITY; SMETIC-C;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349100205     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.031702     Document Type: Article

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