Surface alignment, anchoring transitions, optical properties and topological defects in nematic bent-core materials C7 and C12

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 540, Issue , 2011, Pages 20-41

  Senyuk, B ^a   Kim, Y K ^a   Tortora, L ^a   Shin, S T ^b   Shiyanovskii, S V ^a   Lavrentovich, O D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anchoring transition; bent core nematics; biaxial phase; conoscopy; topological defects

Indexed keywords

ANCHORING TRANSITION; BIAXIAL PHASE; CONOSCOPY; NEMATICS; TOPOLOGICAL DEFECT;

CHEMICAL STABILITY; COREMAKING; DEFECTS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; IODINE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; POINT DEFECTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES; TOPOLOGY;

SURFACE DEFECTS;

EID: 79959237392     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421406.2011.568324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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