Origin of tilted-phase generation in systems of ellipsoidal molecules with dipolar interactions

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

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Bose, Tushar Kanti ^a   Saha, Jayashree ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAXIAL LIQUID CRYSTAL PHASIS; DIPOLAR INTERACTION; ELLIPSOIDAL MOLECULES; MOLECULAR ELONGATION; MOLECULAR LENGTH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PERMANENT DIPOLES; RODLIKE MOLECULES; SMECTIC PHASE; SMECTIC PHASIS; TILT ANGLE; TRANSVERSE ORIENTATION;

MOLECULES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEPARATION; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870663363     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.050701     Document Type: Article

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