Adsorption phenomena and anchoring energy in nematic liquid crystals

Adsorption Phenomena and Anchoring Energy in Nematic Liquid Crystals

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-352

  Barbero, Giovanni ^a   Evangelista, Luiz Roberto ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b Postgrado Maestría en Ciencias de la Salud   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANCHORING PROPERTIES; BACKGROUND INFORMATION; BIAS VOLTAGE DEPENDENCE; FUNDAMENTAL EQUATIONS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; LIQUID CRYSTAL DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALLINE SYSTEM; THICKNESS DEPENDENCE;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 85055175782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/9781420037456     Document Type: Book

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