Dynamics of electric-field-induced molecular reorientation and segmental mobility in the smectic-[Formula Presented] phase of a ferroelectric liquid crystal: Faster reorientation of cores than the alkyl chains revealed by time-resolved infrared spectroscopy

Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 3053-3060

  Verma, A L ^a,b   Zhao, B ^a,c   Jiang, S M ^c   Sheng, J C ^c   Ozaki, Y ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BONDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); THERMAL EFFECTS;

ELECTRIC FIELD INDUCED SWITCHING; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULAR REORIENTATION; MOLECULAR SEGMENT;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0031222447     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.56.3053     Document Type: Article

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