Dielectric technique to measure the twist elastic constant of liquid crystals: The case of a bent-core material

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

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Salamon, P ^a   Iber, N ^a   Seltmann, J ^b   Lehmann, M ^c   Gleeson, J T ^d   Sprunt, S ^d   Jakli A ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; DIELECTRIC TECHNIQUES; DIRECTOR CONFIGURATION; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; MAGNETIC INDUCTANCE; NEMATICS; OPTICAL RESPONSE; PLANAR CELLS; PRETILT; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; TWIST ELASTIC CONSTANT;

COREMAKING; ELASTIC CONSTANTS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84862880761     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.061704     Document Type: Article

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