The authors describe the electric, magnetic and other relaxational processes in a wide
spectrum of materials: liquid crystals, molecular magnets, polymers, high-Tc …

Infrared and dielectric spectroscopic techniques are used to investigate the characteristics of
two chiral smectics, namely, 1, 1, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5-heptamethyltrisiloxane 1-[4′-(undecyl-1-oxy) …

A liquid crystalline vanadyl complex has been studied by DSC, polarizing optical
microscopy, the reversal current technique, X-ray diffraction and frequency domain dielectric …

A method of determining the set of four order parameters S, D, P, and C for a ferroelectric
liquid crystal, using complementary results for different sample geometries, is presented. IR …

The observed macroscopic anisotropic properties such as the components of infrared (IR)
absorbances of liquid crystals are expressed in terms of the order parameters of the long …

Do** liquid crystal (LC) with nanomaterials has been shown to yield some degrees of
freedom for tailoring LC properties. This approach can be employed to produce new LC …

Two approaches exist in the literature for describing the orientational distribution function
(ODF) of the molecular directors in SmA* phase of liquid crystals, though several models are …

Biaxiality in the nematic phase for a liquid crystalline tetrapode made up of organo-siloxanes
mesogens is investigated using polarized infrared spectroscopy. An ordering of the minor …

The theory of absorbance is developed for the entire electromagnetic spectrum of radiation
in a semi-infinite anisotropic medium with a second rank dielectric tensor, the elements of …

IR dichroism and the structure of a homogeneously aligned cell of a chiral smectic
antiferroelectric liquid crystal (R)-1-methylheptyl 4-(4′-dodecyloxybiphenyl-4 …