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Improvement of the electro-optical properties of nematic liquid crystals doped with strontium titanate nanoparticles at various doping concentrations

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Pages 136-142 | Received 25 Jan 2019, Accepted 14 Jun 2019, Published online: 08 Jul 2019

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