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Electrically tunable refractive index in the dark conglomerate phase of a bent-core liquid crystal

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Electrically tunable refractive index in the dark conglomerate phase of a bent-core liquid crystal. / Nagaraj, M.; Görtz, Verena; Goodby, John W. et al.
In: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, 021903, 2014.

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Nagaraj, M, Görtz, V, Goodby, JW & Gleeson, HF 2014, 'Electrically tunable refractive index in the dark conglomerate phase of a bent-core liquid crystal', Applied Physics Letters, vol. 104, 021903. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4861837

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Nagaraj, M., Görtz, V., Goodby, J. W., & Gleeson, H. F. (2014). Electrically tunable refractive index in the dark conglomerate phase of a bent-core liquid crystal. Applied Physics Letters, 104, Article 021903. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4861837

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Nagaraj M, Görtz V, Goodby JW, Gleeson HF. Electrically tunable refractive index in the dark conglomerate phase of a bent-core liquid crystal. Applied Physics Letters. 2014;104:021903. Epub 2014 Jan 13. doi: 10.1063/1.4861837

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Nagaraj, M. ; Görtz, Verena ; Goodby, John W. et al. / Electrically tunable refractive index in the dark conglomerate phase of a bent-core liquid crystal. In: Applied Physics Letters. 2014 ; Vol. 104.

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