Pretransitional behaviour in the vicinity ofthe isotropic-nematic transition ofstrongly polar compounds

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 20, Issue 46, 2008, Pages

  Sridevi, S ^a   Krishna Prasad, S ^a   Shankar Rao, D S ^a   Yelamaggad, C V ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC CAPACITORS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PERMITTIVITY;

ANTIPARALLEL ASSOCIATIONS; BENT CORES; COMMON FEATURES; CONVEX SHAPES; DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; FIRST ORDERS; LINEAR CORRELATIONS; MAXIMUM VALUES; NEMATIC TRANSITIONS; POLAR COMPOUNDS; POLAR GROUPS; POLAR LIQUID CRYSTALS; POLAR LIQUIDS; PRETRANSITIONAL EFFECTS; T DEPENDENCES;

DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 58149352698     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/20/46/465106     Document Type: Article

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