Orientation control over bent-core smectic liquid crystal phases

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 328-341

  Kim, Hanim ^a   Kim, Yun Ho ^b   Lee, Sunhee ^a   Walba, David M ^c   Clark, Noel A ^c   Lee, Sang Bok ^a,d   Yoon, Dong Ki ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

bent core molecules; external fields; liquid crystal phases; orientation control; topographic confinement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897634624     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.817618     Document Type: Review

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