Comment on "the limits of flexoelectricity in liquid crystals" [AIP Advances 1, 032120 (2011)]

AIP Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Palffy Muhoray, P ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

FLEXOELECTRIC COEFFICIENTS; FLEXOELECTRICITY; MEASURED VALUES; PRINCIPLE OF ENERGY CONSERVATION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84874139482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4774285     Document Type: Review

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