Dielectric anisotropy of nematic liquid crystals loaded with carbon nanotubes in microwave range

Electronics Letters

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 693-695

  Trushkevych, O ^a   Golden F ^b   Pivnenko, M ^a   Xu, H ^a   Collings, N ^a   Crossland, W A ^a   Muller S ^b   Jakoby, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPIES; HIGH ANISOTROPY; LOW LOSS; MICROWAVE APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVE DIELECTRICS; TUNABLE DIELECTRICS;

ANISOTROPY; CARBON NANOTUBES; CRYSTALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77955441619     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2010.0752     Document Type: Article

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