Abstracto

Co-Occurrence Matrix and Its Statistical Features as an Approach for Identification Of Phase Transitions Of Mesogens

C.Nageswara Rao , S.Sreehari Sastry , K.Mallika , Ha Sie Tiong and K.B.Mahalakshmi

Statistical features extracted from the Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) of liquid crystal textures are used to investigate the phase transition temperatures of nematic liquid crystals p – n Alkyl benzoic acids (nBA) where n = 8,9 and10. Textures of compounds are recorded as a function of temperature using Polarizing Optical Microscope attached to the hot stage and high resolution camera. In this method, second order statistical parameters – contrast, energy, homogeneity and correlation of the sample textures are computed using MATLAB software. The changes associated in the values of computed statistical features as a function of temperature is a helpful process to identify the phase transition temperatures of the samples. Results obtained from this method are compared with literature values of Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and are in agreement