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Liquid Crystals

Material Parameters and Intrinsic Optical Bistability in Room Temperature Nematics RO-TN-200, -201, -403, E7, m1, and m3

Hiap Liew Ong IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P. O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York, 10598
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Martin Schadt Central Research Units, F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co., Ltd., 4002, Basel, Switzerland
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Ifay F. Chang IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P. O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York, 10598
Pages 45-52 | Received 08 Jul 1985, Published online: 20 Apr 2011

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