Unique approach to measuring temperature variation of surface tension in smectic liquid crystals
| dc.citation.epage | 5155 | en_US |
| dc.citation.issue | 12 | en_US |
| dc.citation.spage | 5151 | en_US |
| dc.citation.volume | 74 | en_US |
| dc.citation.woscount | 6 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Veum, M | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Messman, P | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Liu, ZQ | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Huang, CC | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Janarthanan, N | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Hsu, CS | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | 應用化學系 | zh_TW |
| dc.contributor.department | Department of Applied Chemistry | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-08T15:40:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-12-08T15:40:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003-12-01 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | We have measured the temperature variation of surface tension, sigma, in freestanding films of three liquid-crystal compounds. To do so, we have constructed a curvature-pressure tensiometer that uses a feedback loop to hold constant the curvature of a film while the temperature of the system is smoothly ramped. The apparatus enables us to obtain the temperature variation of sigma in a continuous manner with resolution in sigma of similar to0.2%. We interpret reproducible features of our data in terms of phase transitions. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1063/1.1623629 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0034-6748 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.journal | REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1623629 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.lib.nycu.edu.tw/handle/11536/27330 | |
| dc.identifier.wosnumber | WOS:000186755400026 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.title | Unique approach to measuring temperature variation of surface tension in smectic liquid crystals | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |