Dielectric Relaxation and the Glass Transition in Nematic Liquid Crystals
- 1 February 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 48 (5) , 334-337
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.48.334
Abstract
Dielectric relaxation studies in nematic liquid crystals with give the unique opportunity to study a microscopically well-defined kinetic process in a temperature interval extending below . Relaxation is nearly exponential at all temperatures and obeys the Vogel-Fulcher law even below .
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