Ferroelectric ordering and electroclinic effect in chiral smectic liquid crystals

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

Volumn 69, Issue 3 1, 2004, Pages

  Fokin, Yu G ^a   Murzina, T V ^a   Aktsipetrov, O A ^a   Soria, S ^b,c   Marowsky, G ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b LASER LABORATORIUM GÖTTINGEN E V   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FERROELECTRICITY; HYSTERESIS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; POLYMERS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; ULTRATHIN FILMS;

FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (FLC); FERROELECTRIC SWITCHING; NONLINEAR RESPONSES; SURFACE COUPLING;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749105309     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.031701     Document Type: Article

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