Unidirectional homogenous alignment of smectic liquid crystal under shear stress

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 431, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 74-80

  Kim, Jaeki ^a   Yoshida, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Moritake, Hiroshi ^c   Ozaki, Masanori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL DEFENSE ACADEMY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST RATIO; CROSSED POLARIZERS; SMECTIC LAYERS;

ALIGNMENT; FERROELECTRICITY; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84867893252     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150193.2012.684634     Document Type: Conference Paper

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