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Autore |
Lagerwall Sven T (Sven Torbjörn) |
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Ferroelectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystals [[electronic resource] /] / Sven T. Lagerwall |
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Weinheim ; ; New York, : Wiley-VCH, c1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-76419-1 |
9786611764197 |
3-527-61358-7 |
3-527-61359-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (448 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ferroelectric crystals |
Liquid crystals |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-415) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals; Contents; List of Symbols and Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 Polar Materials and Effects; 2.1 Polar and Nonpolar Dielectrics; 2.2 The Nonpolarity of Liquid Crystals in General; 2.3 Behavior of Dielectrics in Electric Fields: Classification of Polar Materials; 2.4 Developments in the Understanding of Polar Effects; 2.5 The van der Waals Attraction and Born's Mean Field Theory; 2.6 Landau Preliminaries . The Concept of Order Parameter; 2.7 The Simplest Description of a Ferroelectric; 2.8 Improper Ferroelectrics; 2.9 The Piezoelectric Phase |
3 The Necessary Conditions for Macroscopic Polarization3.1 The Neumann and Curie Principles; 3.2 Franz Neumann, Königsberg, and the Rise of Theoretical Physics; 3.3 Neumann's Principle Applied to Liquid Crystals; 3.4 The Surface-Stabilized State; 3.5 Chirality and its Consequences; 3.6 The Curie Principle and Piezoelectricity; 3.7 Hermann's Theorem; 3.8 The Importance of Additional Symmetries; 3.9 Optical Activity and Enantiomorphism; 3.10 Non-Chiral Polar and NLO-Active Liquid Crystals; 4 The Flexoelectric Polarization; 4.1 |
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