Measuring the intensity of director fluctuations below the onset of electroconvection
- 1 December 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 44 (12) , R7885-R7887
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.44.r7885
Abstract
A simplified method for measuring the director fluctuation intensity below the electrohydrodynamic instability in a thin layer of a nematic liquid crystal is presented.Keywords
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