Experimental investigations of one liquid-crystal compound exhibiting the no-layer-shrinkage effect near the Sm-A-Sm-C* transition

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

Volumn 69, Issue 4 1, 2004, Pages

  Huang, C C ^a   Wang, S T ^a   Han, X F ^a   Cady, A ^a,d   Pindak, R ^b   Caliebe, W ^b   Ema, K ^c   Takekoshi, K ^c   Yao, H ^c  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CALORIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ELLIPSOMETRY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBES; SHRINKAGE; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

DE VRIES COMPOUND; LAYER-SHRINKAGE EFFECTS; MOLECULAR PACKING; SMECTIC PHASE TRANSITIONS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749103285     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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