Superpositions of handed wave functions
Article Abstract:
Advances in ultra-short-pulse laser methods may provide an opportunity to study states of chiral molecules that are similar to achiral stationary states. In addition, the microscopic process that degrades the 'stationary' achiral states and stabilize the handed states could be observed.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Fast ferroelectric liquid-crystal elctrooptics
Article Abstract:
Ferroelectric liquid crystals, liquids with polar super-molecular structures, are being developed for integrated optical chips. These organic films perform switching much faster than nematic liquid crystals or silicon chips. The electro-optics involved are described.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Chiral order from achiral molecules
Article Abstract:
Several attempts have been made to obtain polar order from achiral molecules. Research findings presented in 1996 showed evidence of ferroelectric switching in a layered liquid-crystalline phase that consisted of achiral bent-core molecules.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Fatigue crack growth properties of a cryogenic structural steel at liquid helium temperature. Analysis and testing of mixed-mode interlaminar fracture behavior of glass-cloth/epoxy laminates at cryogenic temperatures
- Abstracts: Sound way to save fish. Electrokinetic cleanups. Do-nothing cleanups
- Abstracts: Fabrication of redox potential microelectrodes for studies in vegetated soils or biofilm systems. Fogwater chemistry at a mountainside forest and the estimation of the air pollutant deposition via fog droplets based on the atmospheric quality at the mountain base
- Abstracts: Fine focus. Computer numerical control. Fine cuts
- Abstracts: On deformation of A-M interface in single crystal shape memory alloys and some related issues. Experimental characterization of crack tip deformation fields in alloy 718 at high temperatures