Polar switching in the smectic- Ad PA phase composed of asymmetric bent-core molecules

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

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Guo, Lingfeng ^a   Dhara, Surajit ^b   Sadashiva, B K ^c   Radhika, S ^c   Pratibha, R ^c   Shimbo, Yoshio ^a   Araoka, Fumito ^a   Ishikawa, Ken ^a   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c RAMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROELECTRIC-FERROELECTRIC PHASE TRANSITION; ANTIFERROELECTRICS; BENT-CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS; BENT-CORE MOLECULES; CONTINUOUS PHASE TRANSITIONS; DC BIAS; DEBYE-TYPE RELAXATION; DEPENDENT TEXTURE; DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; DIELECTRIC STRENGTHS; DIELECTRIC STUDIES; ELECTRO-OPTICAL; IN-PLANE ELECTRIC FIELDS; LONG AXIS; MESOGENIC PROPERTIES; MESOPHASES; POLAR SWITCHING; POLARIZATION SWITCHING; POLARIZING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SCHLIEREN TEXTURES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; TRIANGULAR WAVE;

ANTIFERROELECTRICITY; DIELECTRIC RELAXATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TEXTURES;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 76149090820     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011703     Document Type: Article

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