Anchoring transitions of transversely polar liquid-crystal molecules on perfluoropolymer surfaces

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Dhara, Surajit ^a,b   Kim, Jin Ki ^a   Jeong, Soon Moon ^a,c   Kogo, Reiri ^a   Araoka, Fumito ^a   Ishikawa, Ken ^a   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c JAPAN ENERGY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT LAYERS; ANCHORING TRANSITION; BISTABLE DEVICES; HOMEOTROPIC; INTERFACIAL REGION; NEMATIC PHASE; ORIENTATIONAL TRANSITIONS; PERFLUOROPOLYMER; POLAR LIQUIDS; TILT ANGLE;

ALIGNMENT; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 67650934986     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.060701     Document Type: Article

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