Splayed polarization in the ferroelectric phase of a bent-core liquid crystal as studied by optical second-harmonic generation

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

Volumn 69, Issue 5 2, 2004, Pages

  Araoka, Fumito ^a   Hoshi, Hajime ^a,b   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SURFACE PHENOMENA;

BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS; PARALLEL POLARIZERS; POLARIZATION CHARGES; SPLAYED POLARIZATION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749104885     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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