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• Christopher D Jones, ,
  • Domains, Defects, and de Vries: Electrooptics of Smectic Liquid Crystals
    2007/Nov/13 17:21:38
    Author : Christopher D Jones, ,  PhD , Physics , University of Colorado at Boulder , 2007
    Advisor: Noel A Clark
    Abstract (1642 hits)     Full Document (1829 hits) (19990 Kb)     
    
  • Textures and Interactions between Vortices in the 2D XY Field of Freely Suspended SmC and SmC* Liquid Crystal Films
    2008/May/08 13:35:12
    Author : Apichart Pattanaporkratana, ,  PhD , Physics , University of Colorado at Boulder , 2007
    Advisor: Noel A. Clark
    Abstract (1672 hits)     Full Document (1812 hits) (1928 Kb)     
    
  • Liquid crystalline phases in oligonucleotide solutions
    2009/Mar/13 17:56:31
    Author : Giuliano Zanchetta, ,  PhD , Physics , Universita\' degli Studi di Milano , 2007
    Advisor: Tommaso Bellini
    Abstract (1252 hits)     Full Document (1468 hits) (7016 Kb)     
    
  • Nonlinear optical and structural properties of new bent-core liquid crystal materials
    2009/Apr/06 04:49:05
    Author : Ibon Alonso Villanueva,  MSc , Physics , Univeristy of the Basque Country , 2006
    Advisor: César Luis Folcia Basa
    Abstract (1192 hits)     Full Document (1133 hits) (59030 Kb)     
    
  • Electro-Mechanical Couplings in Liquid Crystsals
    2009/Apr/08 18:22:36
    Author : John E Harden, ,  PhD , Chemical Physics , Kent State University , 2007
    Advisor: Antal Jakli
    Abstract (1447 hits)     Full Document (1911 hits) (2381 Kb)     
    
  • Electroconvection and pattern formation in nematic liquid crystals
    2009/May/27 22:49:40
    Author : Gyanu R. Acharya, ,  PhD , Physics , Kent State University , 2007
    Advisor: James T. Gleeson
    Abstract (1356 hits)     Full Document (1215 hits) (8080 Kb)     
    
  • Effects of Dielectric Relaxation on Director Dynamics in Uniaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals
    2009/Jul/07 02:24:59
    Author : Mingxia Gu,  PhD , Chemical Physics , Kent State University , 2009
    Advisor: Oleg D Lavrentovich
    Abstract (1346 hits)     Full Document (1679 hits) (1962 Kb)     
    
  • E®ects of the Spontaneous Polarization on the Structural and Dynamic Properties of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
    2009/Sep/01 22:06:24
    Author : David A Coleman, ,  PhD , Physics , University of Colorado , 2003
    Advisor: Noel Anthony Clark
    Abstract (1294 hits)     Full Document (2015 hits) (2646 Kb)     
    
  • New electro-optical applications of LCs: from beam steering devices and tunable lenses to negative refraction and field-induced dynamics of colloids
    2009/Sep/03 19:48:40
    Author : Oleg Pishnyak, ,  PhD , Chemical Physics , Kent State University , 2009
    Advisor: Oleg Lavrentovich
    Abstract (943 hits)     Full Document (2143 hits) (2100 Kb)     
    
  
  
• James Michael Adams
  • Statistical models of elasticity in main chain and smectic liquid crystal elastomers
    2006/Apr/10 05:57:18
    Author : James Michael Adams  PhD , Physics , Cambridge University , 2005
    Advisor: Mark Warner
    Abstract (1826 hits)     Full Document (2095 hits) (1559 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Wenyi Cao
  • Fluorescence and Lasing in Liquid Crystalline Photonic Bandgap Materials
    2006/Feb/09 00:14:38
    Author : Wenyi Cao  Ph.D. , Chemical Physics , Kent State University , 2005
    Advisor: Peter Palffy-Muhoray
    Abstract (1892 hits)     Full Document (2717 hits) (2073 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Roland Ennis
  • Pattern Formation in Liquid Crystals: The Saffman-Taylor Instability and the Dynamics of Phase Separation
    2006/Apr/09 17:49:17
    Author : Roland Ennis  PhD , Chemical Physics , Kent State University , 2004
    Advisor: Peter Palffy-Muhoray
    Abstract (1667 hits)     Full Document (1782 hits) (5850 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Jacob Paul Fontana
  • Self-assembly and characterization of anisotropic metamaterials
    2011/Mar/29 14:31:52
    Author : Jacob Paul Fontana  PhD , Chemical Physics , Kent State University , 2009
    Advisor: Peter Palffy-Muhoray
    Abstract (1227 hits)     Full Document (1921 hits) (7864 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Barbara Joan Frisken
  • Nematic Liquid Crystals in Electric and Magnetic Fields
    2006/Jan/19 15:18:40
    Author : Barbara Joan Frisken  PhD , Physics , University of British Columbia , 1989
    Advisor: Peter Palffy-Muhoray
    Abstract (2080 hits)     Full Document (2848 hits) (3060 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Loren E Hough
  • Layer Curvature and Optical Activity in Bent Core Liquid Crystalline Phases
    2007/Aug/27 13:58:36
    Author : Loren E Hough  PhD , Physics , University of Colorado, Boulder , 2007
    Advisor: Noel A Clark
    Abstract (1593 hits)     Full Document (1354 hits) (10861 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Guangxun Liao
  • Mechanical and Electro-Optical Properties of Unconventional Liquid Crystal Systems
    2006/Feb/19 03:26:43
    Author : Guangxun Liao  Ph.D. , Physics , Kent State University , 2005
    Advisor: Antal Jakli
    Abstract (1927 hits)     Full Document (1508 hits) (18610 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Duong Hoang Nguyen, Joseph Maclennan
  • Smectic Liquid Crystal Freely Suspended Films: Testing Beds for the Physics in Thin Membranes
    2011/Aug/14 02:31:28
    Author : Duong Hoang Nguyen, Joseph Maclennan  PhD , Physics , University of Colorado - Boulder , 2011
    Advisor: Noel A Clark
    Abstract (1228 hits)     Full Document (1327 hits) (6364 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Michi Nakata
  • Chirality and Polarity in Bent-core Liquid Crystals
    2006/Oct/24 09:37:17
    Author : Michi Nakata  Ph.D. , Engineering , Tokyo Institute of Technology , 2006
    Advisor: Hideo Takezoe
    Abstract (1307 hits)     Full Document (1579 hits) (33149 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Heung-Shik Park
  • Self-assembly of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals: Effects of additives and applications
    2011/May/04 15:08:28
    Author : Heung-Shik Park  PhD , Chemical Physics , Kent State Universisy , 2010
    Advisor: Oleg D. Lavrentovich
    Abstract (1293 hits)     Full Document (1504 hits) (6211 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Bohdan Senyuk
  • Dielectric Response of Liquid Crystals Formed by Bent-Core and Chiral Molecules
    2011/May/04 21:05:35
    Author : Bohdan Senyuk  PhD , Chemical Physics , Kent State University , 2010
    Advisor: Oleg Lavrentovich
    Abstract (1281 hits)     Full Document (1383 hits) (11584 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Hemang J Shah
  • Engineered Interfaces for Liquid Crystal Technology
    2007/Sep/07 10:35:41
    Author : Hemang J Shah  PhD , Electrical Engineering , Drexel University , 2007
    Advisor: Adam K Fontecchio
    Abstract (1756 hits)     Full Document (1605 hits) (12086 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Stefano Simone Turzi
  • Distortion-induced effects in nematic liquid crystals
    2007/May/31 11:51:18
    Author : Stefano Simone Turzi  PhD , Applied Mathematics , Politecnico di Milano, Italy , 2006
    Advisor: Paolo Biscari
    Abstract (1692 hits)     Full Document (1973 hits) (899 Kb)     
    
  
  
• David Wiant
  • Pattern Formation and Phase Transitions in Bent-core Liquid Crystals
    2007/Jun/06 15:40:20
    Author : David Wiant  PhD , Physics , Kent State University , 2004
    Advisor: James Gleeson
    Abstract (1484 hits)     Full Document (2039 hits) (4282 Kb)     
    
  
  
• Ye Yin
  • Dielectric relaxation and electrooptical effects in nematic liquid crystals
    2007/Nov/06 00:35:04
    Author : Ye Yin  PhD , Physics , Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program , 2007
    Advisor: Oleg D Lavrentovich, Sergij Shiyanovskii
    Abstract (1666 hits)     Full Document (2162 hits) (968 Kb)