Evidence for de Vries structure in a smectic-A liquid crystal observed by polarized Raman scattering

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

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Hayashi, Naoki ^a,e   Kato, Tatsuhisa ^a   Fukuda, Atsuo ^b   Vij, Jagdish K ^b   Panarin, Yuri P ^b   Naciri, J ^c   Shashidhar, R ^c   Kawada, Sachiko ^d   Kondoh, Shinya ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d CITIZEN WATCH CO LTD   (Japan)

^e FUJIFILM CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPOLE MOMENTS; ELECTROCLINIC EFFECTS; MOLECULAR LENGTH; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41349114180     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.041705     Document Type: Article

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