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Chapter and Conference Paper
Photoacoustic Depth Profiling of Continuously Inhomogeneous Condensed Phases and Application to the Liquid Crystal Octylcyanobiphenyl (8 CB)
An application is presented of the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation of thermal-wave physics [A. Mandelis, J. Math. Phys. 26, 2676 (1985)] to the problem of photoacoustic depth profiling of inhomogeneous condensed p...
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Chapter
Photoacoustics Applied to Liquid Crystals
Liquid crystals are composed of organic molecules of asymmetric shape which do not melt in a single stage from the crystalline state to an isotropic liquid.1,2 For the most common type of liquid crystals the shap...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Photoacoustic Investigation of the Anisotropic Thermal Behavior of Liquid Crystals
A completely automatic photoacoustic setup with microphone detection has been used to investigate the heat capacity and the thermal conductivity of not oriented or magnetically oriented liquid crystal samples ...