De Vries behavior of the electroclinic effect in the smectic- A phase near a biaxiality-induced smectic- A -smectic- C tricritical point

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

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Saunders, Karl ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAXIALITY; CHANGE IN BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROCLINIC; ELECTROCLINIC EFFECT; FIRST ORDER; LANDAU THEORY; LAYER SPACINGS; ORDER PARAMETER; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; SMECTIC C; SMECTIC-A; TILT ANGLE; TRICRITICAL POINT; TRICRITICALITY; ZERO FIELDS;

BIREFRINGENCE;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 68949091771     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.011703     Document Type: Article

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