Reorientational dynamics of the pseudonematic domains studied with nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2002 Sep;66(3 Pt 1):031702. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.66.031702. Epub 2002 Sep 3.

Abstract

Nonlinear dielectric spectroscopy was used for studies of the reorientational dynamics of the pseudonematic domains in the isotropic phase of the mesogenic substance in the vicinity of the isotropic to nematic phase transition. The results were interpreted in the frame of the Landau-de Gennes theory.