Modulated structures of flexoelectric origin in nematic liquid crystals

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

Volumn 67, Issue 6 1, 2003, Pages

  Barbero, G ^a   Lelidis, I ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Universite de Picardie Jules Verne   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; EXTRAPOLATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLARIZATION;

DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; FLEXOELECTRIC ORIGINS; MODULATED STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL INSTABILITY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749105999     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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