Flexoelectric studies on mixtures of compounds made of rodlike and bent-core molecules

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Kundu, Brindaban ^a   Roy, Arun ^a   Pratibha, R ^a   Madhusudana, N V ^a  

^a RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENT-CORE MOLECULES; CALAMITIC MOLECULES; CYANOBIPHENYLS; FLEXOELECTRIC; FLEXOELECTRIC POLARIZATIONS; HOMEOTROPIC ALIGNMENT; HYBRID ALIGNED NEMATIC CELLS; OCTADECYL; SELF ENERGY; SIMPLE MODEL; TEMPERATURE VARIATION;

MIXTURES; MOLECULES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 69549086650     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3213544     Document Type: Article

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