Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.507, 150-160, 2009
Transient Light Scattering Mode of an Orthoconic Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal
Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals (AFLC) have been extensively studied due to their physical properties offering unique electrooptical properties. Here an electrooptical effect which does not need polarizers - so called Transient Scattering Mode (TSM), observed previously for FLCs, and AFLC's was studied with using of the antiferroelectric liquid crystal with the saturated tilt angle theta = 45 degrees (Orthoconic Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystal - OAFLC). The working mixture with a short helical pitch lambda at room temperature was used to induce a Bragg scattering. The electrooptical performance of two operation regimes of an unordered surface stabilised structure is presented and discussed.
Keywords:Bragg scattering;high tilted smectic liquid crystals;light scattering;orthoconic antiferroelectric smectic liquid crystals