TY - BOOK ID - 77918359 TI - Flexoelectricity in liquid crystals : theory, experiments and applications AU - Buka, Agnes. AU - Eber, Milton. PY - 2013 SN - 1283739186 1848168004 9781848168008 9781283739184 1848167997 9781848167995 PB - Singapore ; London : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Liquid crystals KW - Liquid crystals. KW - Crystals, Liquid KW - Light sources KW - Electric properties. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77918359 AB - The book intends to give a state-of-the-art overview of flexoelectricity, a linear physical coupling between mechanical (orientational) deformations and electric polarization, which is specific to systems with orientational order, such as liquid crystals.Chapters written by experts in the field shed light on theoretical as well as experimental aspects of research carried out since the discovery of flexoelectricity. Besides a common macroscopic (continuum) description the microscopic theory of flexoelectricity is also addressed. Electro-optic effects due to or modified by flexoelectricity as we ER -