Electrically tunable spatially variable switching in ferroelectric liquid crystal/water system

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 17, 2009, Pages

  Choudhary, A ^a,b   Coondoo, I ^a   Prakash, J ^a,c   Sreenivas, K ^b   Biradar, A M ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION OF WATERS; ELECTRIC FIELD LINES; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; FERRO-ELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; FERROELECTRIC LIQUIDS; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS; OPTICAL STUDIES; PRESENCE OF WATERS; SMECTIC LAYERS; SWITCHING PHENOMENON;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

FERROELECTRICITY;

EID: 65449157656     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3126960     Document Type: Article

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