Structural, electronic, and optical properties of a prototype columnar discotic liquid crystal

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 129, Issue 17, 2008, Pages

  Cinacchi, Giorgio ^a   Colle, Renato ^a   Parruccini, Pietro ^a   Tani, Alessandro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POWDERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLVENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CURRENT/VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DENSITY OF STATES; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; DISCOTIC MOLECULES; ELECTRONIC ENERGIES; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; EXTERNAL POTENTIALS; GOLD ELECTRODES; MESOPHASES; MODEL SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TECHNIQUES; NONEQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION METHODS; OPTICAL ABSORPTION SPECTRUMS; OPTICAL ABSORPTIONS; OPTIMIZED STRUCTURES; PROTOTYPE MODELS; QUANTUM EXPRESSIONS; SHORT COLUMNS; TRIPHENYLENE; TRIPHENYLENES;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 55849125418     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3003075     Document Type: Article

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