Frederiks transition in ferroelectric liquid-crystal nanosuspensions

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

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Shelestiuk, Sergii M ^a   Reshetnyak, Victor Yu ^a   Sluckin, Timothy J ^b  

^a TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC MATRICES; CAPACITANCE PROPERTIES; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPIES; DIELECTRIC PARTICLES; DIELECTRIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; EFFECT OF DOPING; ELECTRIC POLARIZATION; FERROELECTRIC LC; HOMOGENEOUS DIELECTRICS; IMPURITY PARTICLES; INCLUSION SHAPES; LOCAL-FIELD EFFECTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MAXWELL-GARNETT; NANO-SUSPENSIONS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICLE SURFACE; POSITIONAL CORRELATION; THEORETICAL MODELS; THRESHOLD FIELDS;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTAL IMPURITIES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRICITY; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 79961042024     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.83.041705     Document Type: Article

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