Frustrated structure induced on ferroelectric smectic phases in banana-shaped molecular system

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 2 PART A, 1998, Pages

  Watanabe, Junji ^a   Niori, Teruki ^a   Sekine, Tomoko ^a   Tekezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Banana shaped molecule; C2v symmetry; Ferroelectric liquid crystals; Frustrated smectic phase; Helical structure; Spontaneous polarization; X ray pattern

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY; FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS; MOLECULES; POLARIZATION; X RAYS;

BANANA SHAPED MOLECULES; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; FERROELECTRIC SMECTIC PHASES; HELICAL STRUCTURE;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0032003493     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.37.l139     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. J. Watanabe, Y. Nakata and K. Simizu: J. Phys. II (France) 4 (1994) 581.
2. T. Niori, S. Adachi and J. Watanabe: Liq. Cryst. 19 (1995) 139.
3. T. Niori: Dr. Thesis, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 1997.
4. J. Watanabe and Y. Nakata: Polym. J. 29 (1997) 193.
5. T. Niori, T. Sekine, J. Watanabe, T. Furukawa and H. Takezoe: J. Mater. Chem. 6 (1996) 1231.
6. T. Sekine, T. Niori, J. Watanabe, T. Furukawa, S. W. Choi and H. Takezoe: J. Mater. Chem. 7 (1997) 1307.
7. T. Niori, T. Sekine, J. Watanabe, T. Furukawa and H. Takezoe: Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 301 (1997) 337.
8. T. Sekine, Y. Takanishi, T. Niori, J. Watanabe and H. Takezoe: Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 36 (1997) L1201.
9. T. Sekine, T. Niori, M. Sone, J. Watanabe, S. W. Choi, Y. Takanishi and H. Takezoe: Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 36 (1997) 6455.
10. J. W. Goodby, M. A. Waugh, S. M. Stein, E. Chin, R. Pindak and J. S. Patel: Nature 337 (1989) 449.
11. J. Watanabe and M. Hayashi: Macromolecules 22 (1989) 4083.
12. J. Watanabe and S. Kinoshita: J. Phys. II (France) 2 (1992) 1237.
13. M. Tokita, K. Osada and J. Watanabe: to be published in Liq. Cryst.
14. 4) but in this case, it should be noted that its direction can be only speculated because of the poorly oriented X-ray pattern. However, depending on which model is adopted, the structural characteristics described here are not essentially altered.
15. J. Prost: Adv. Phys. 33 (1984) 1.
16. H. Mensinger, A. Biswas and H. Poths: Macromolecules 25 (1992) 3156.
17. A. M. Levelut and N. H. Tinh: J. Phys. (France) 48 (1987) 847.
18. A. G. Khachaturyan: J. Phys. Chem. Solids 36 (1975) 1055.