Textural and conoscopic studies of chiral liquid crystals possessing cholestric - Smectic a or cholesteric-TGB A - Smectic a phase transitions

Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-11

  Nastishin, Yu A ^a,b   Kleman, M ^b   Dovgyi, O B ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL OPTICS   (Ukraine)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Conoscopic patterns; Liquid crystals; Phase transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981489503     PISSN: 16091833     EISSN: 18162002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3116/16091833/3/1/1/2002     Document Type: Article

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