Drifting periodic structures in a degenerate-planar bent-rod nematic liquid crystal beyond the dielectric inversion frequency

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 112, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 9270-9274

  Kumar, Pramoda ^a   Hiremath, Uma S ^a   Yelamaggad, C V ^a   Rossberg, Axel G ^b   Krishnamurthy, K S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC POSITIONING; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE);

ANCHORING TRANSITIONS; CALAMITIC; DEFECT-FREE; GROUND-STATE; INVERSION FREQUENCY; INVERSION POINTS; LINEAR DEFECTS; MESOGEN; NEMATIC PHASE; NORMAL ROLLS; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; VOLTAGE PLANE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 49649116625     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp804264m     Document Type: Article

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