Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

High Figure-of-Merit Laterally Fluorinated BiphenyltolaneIsothiocyanates Sebastian Gauza a , Yang Zhao a , Tatiana Le Cor a , Shin-Tson Wu a , Anna Ziolek b , Roman Dąbrowski b , Otilia Catanescu c , Liang-Chy Chien c & Chain-Shu Hsu d a College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida , Orlando, FL, USA b Institute of Chemistry, Military University of Technology , Warsaw, Poland c Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University , Kent, OH, USA d Department of Applied Chemistry , National Chiao Tung University , Hsinchu, Taiwan Published online: 22 Sep 2010.