Effect of various external factors and pretransitional phenomena on structural transformations in cholesteric liquid crystals
- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- Published by Pleiades Publishing Ltd in Crystallography Reports
- Vol. 45 (5) , 871-886
- https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1312938
Abstract
The publications on low-molecular thermotropic liquid crystals with cholesteric structures have been reviewed. The effect of an applied electric field on cholesteric structures is studied. BistabilityKeywords
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