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Measuring Magnetically-Tuned Ferroelectric Polarization in Liquid Crystals
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Drifting periodic structures in a degenerate-planar bent-rod nematic liquid crystal beyond the dielectric inversion

Pramoda Kumar, Uma S Hiremath, C V Yelamaggad

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
    |July 11, 2008
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