Magnetic-field induced isotropic to nematic liquid crystal phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 24, 2008, Pages

  Ostapenko, T ^a   Wiant, D B ^b   Sprunt, S N ^a   Jakli A ^a   Gleeson, J T ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETISM; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CRITICAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; CRYSTAL PHASE TRANSITIONS; FIELD INDUCED; FIELD MODELS; FIRST ORDERS; ISOTROPIC TRANSITIONS; NEMATIC LIQUIDS; NEMATIC ORDERS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 57749099035     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.247801     Document Type: Article

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