Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.366, 2469-2480, 2001
Properties of system with induced SmCA* phase
Physical macroscopic properties such as the spontaneous polarization P-S, the tilt angle theta, dielectric permittivity epsilon (perpendicular to) as a function of temperature were measured for system with induced SMCA* composed simultaneously of three ring chiral esters with partially fluorinated terminal chain and nonfluorinated. Dielectric and spontaneous polarization measurements on heating and cooling runs show a thermal hysteresis for the phase transition between SmC* and SMCA* phases.
Keywords:induced antiferroelectric phase;spontaneous polarization;tilt angle;dielectric permittivity;thermal hysteresis;phase transition