Anchoring transition of bent-rod liquid crystal dimers on different surfaces

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 37, Issue 6-7, 2010, Pages 883-892

  Lee, Guksik ^a   Jeong, Hyeon cheol ^a,b   Araoka, Fumito ^a   Ishikawa, Ken ^a   Lee, Jong Gun ^b   Kang, Kyung Tae ^b   Cepic, Mojca ^c   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Anchoring transition; Bent rod liquid crystal dimer; Dielectric anisotropy; Perfluoropolymer; Phenomenological theory; Polyimide; Surface interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954377780     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2010.481904     Document Type: Article

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