Spontaneously chiral domains of an achiral bent-core nematic liquid crystal in a planar aligned device

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

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Salter, P S ^a   Benzie, P W ^a   Reddy, R A ^b   Tschierske, C ^b   Elston, S J ^a   Raynes, E P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED ELECTRIC FIELD; DIRECTOR STRUCTURE; ELECTRO-OPTICS; PLANAR DEVICES; TEMPERATURE INTERVALS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 70349525167     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.031701     Document Type: Article

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