Anomalous behaviour of antiferroelectric SmC(alpha)* phase

A. Fafara; S. Wrobel; Wolfgang Haase; M. Marzec; Roman S. Dabrowski

doi:10.1117/12.472139

27 June 2002 Anomalous behaviour of antiferroelectric SmC_α* phase

A. Fafara, S. Wrobel, Wolfgang Haase, M. Marzec, Roman S. Dabrowski

Proceedings Volume 4759, XIV Conference on Liquid Crystals: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472139
Event: XIV Conference on Liquid Crystals, Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, 2001, Zakopane, Poland

Abstract

New liquid crystalline substance has been studied by means of frequency domain dielectric spectroscopy (FDDS) and electro-optic methods. Typical soft mode is visible in paraelectric SmA* phase. Temperature dependencies of dielectric increment and critical frequencies in SmC_sub* are more complicated what suggests existing of SmC_(alpha )* phase. There is no evidence of the Goldstone mode in the monotropic SmC_(alpha )* phase what supports the idea of its antiferroelectric nature. It is confirmed by measurements of spontaneous polarization by the reversal current method. Two peaks appear on the opposite sides of the zero field. The temperature dependence of spontaneous polarization as well as FDDS measurements show that transition between the SmC_(alpha )* and paraelectric SmA* phases seems to be a first order transition.

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A. Fafara, S. Wrobel, Wolfgang Haase, M. Marzec, and Roman S. Dabrowski "Anomalous behaviour of antiferroelectric SmC_α* phase", Proc. SPIE 4759, XIV Conference on Liquid Crystals: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, (27 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472139

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