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Research Article

Enhancement in electro-optical properties of ferroelectric liquid crystal by doping perovskite CsPbBr3 quantum dots

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Pages 1111-1118 | Received 04 Oct 2019, Accepted 15 Dec 2019, Published online: 03 Jan 2020

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