Landau expansion coefficients related to second order SmA-SmC* transition for ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures composed from achiral matrix and chiral dopants: 2. Influence of cell thickness on the apparent values of Landau coefficients in FLC mixtures

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 200, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 37-49

  Saxena, Kanchan ^a   Blinov, L M ^b   Beresnev, L A ^a   Haase, W ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Ferroelectric liquid crystals; High spontaneous polarization FLC mixtures; Landau expansion coefficients; Multi component FLC mixtures; Pyroelectric and electro optic measurements; Second order smectic A to C* transition; Surface effects in FLCs

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ELECTROOPTICAL MATERIALS; MIXTURES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; POLARIZATION; PYROELECTRICITY; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ELECTROCLINIC LIQUID CRYSTAL MIXTURES; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; LANDAU EXPANSION COEFFICIENTS; SURFACE FORCES;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0031332328     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150199708008595     Document Type: Article

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