Landau expansion coefficients related to second order SmA-SmC* transition for ferroelectric liquid crystal mixtures composed from an achiral matrix and chiral dopants - 1. Decrease of Landau elastic coefficient α for small concentration of a chiral dopant

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 200, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 21-35

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

Indexed keywords

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

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

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0031360355     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150199708008594     Document Type: Article

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