Delayed response of the alkyl chains during dynamical switching in a chiral, antiferroelectric liquid crystal probed by dynamic and polarized infrared spectroscopy

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

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1868-1872

  Verma, A L ^a   Zhao, B ^a   Terauchi, H ^a   Ozaki, Y ^a  

^a KWANSEI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHASE TRANSITIONS;

ALKYL CHAIN; ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; DYNAMIC INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; POLARIZED INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0033070794     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.59.1868     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. A. D. L. Chandani, T. Hagiwara, Y. Suzuki, Y. Ouchi, H. Takezoe, and A. Fukuda, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 2 27, L729 (1988).
2. A. D. L. Chandani, E. Gorecka, Y. Ouchi, H. Takezoe, and A. Fukuda, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 2 28, L1265 (1989).
3. A. Fukuda, Y. Takanishi, T. Isozaki, K. Ishikawa, and H. Takezoe, J. Mater. Chem. 4, 997 (1994).
4. K. H. Kim, K. Ishikawa, H. Takezoe, and A. Fukuda, Phys. Rev. E 51, 2166 (1995).
5. Ch. Bahr, and D. Fliegner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1842 (1993).
6. Ch. Bahr, D. Fliegner, C. J. Booth, and J. W. Goodby, Phys. Rev. E 51, R3823 (1995).
7. B. Rovsek, M. Cepic, and B. Zeks, Phys. Rev. E 54, R3113 (1996).
8. K. Tajari, N. Yamada, H. Orihara, I. Takanishi, H. Terauchi, J. Harada, and Y. Ishibashi, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 64, 3157 (1995).
9. H. Toriumi, M. Yoshida, M. Mikami, M. Takeuchi, and A. Mochizuki, J. Phys. Chem. 100, 15 207 (1996).
10. A. Jakli and A. Saupe, Phys. Rev. E 53, R5580 (1996).
11. A. Miyachi, J. Matsuchima, Y. Takanishi, K. Ishikawa, H. Takezoe, and A. Fukuda, Phys. Rev. E 52, R2153 (1995).
12. B. Jin, Z. Ling, Y. Takanishi, K. Ishikawa, H. Takezoe, A. Fukuda, M. Kakimoto, and T. Kitazume, Phys. Rev. E 53, R4295 (1996).
13. N. Katayama, T. Sato, Y. Ozaki, K. Murashiro, M. Kikuchi, S. Saito, D. Demus, T. Yuzawa, and H. Hamaguchi, Appl. Spectrosc. 49, 977 (1995).
14. S. V. Shilov, S. Okretic, H. W. Siesler, and M. A. Czarnecki, Appl. Spectrosc. Rev. 31, 82 (1996), and other references cited in this paper.
15. A. L. Verma, B. Zhao, S. M. Jiang, J. C. Shen, and Y. Ozaki, Phys. Rev. E 56, 3053 (1997).
16. F. Hide, N. A. Clark, K. Nito, A. Yasuda, and D. M. Walba, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 2344 (1995).
17. T. Inukai, K. Furukawa, M. Terashima, S. Saito, M. Isogai, T. Kitamura, and A. Mukoh (unpublished).
18. ω is the angle between the smectic layer normal and polarization direction of the incident radiation and is taken as zero when these two directions coincide.
19. N. B. Colthup, L. H. Daly, and S. E. Wiberley, Introduction to Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy (Academic, New York, 1990), Chap. 8 and 9.
20. J. Dijon, in Liquid Crystals, Applications and Uses, edited by B. Bahadur (World Scientific, Singapore, 1990), Vol. 1, p. 305.
21. R. Bartolino, J. Doyucet, and G. Durand, Ann. Phys. (Paris) 3, 389 (1979).
22. E. N. Keller, E. Nachaliel, and D. Davidov, Phys. Rev. A 34, 4363 (1986).
23. H. Stegmeyer, K. Siemensmeyer, W. Sucrov, and L. Appel, Z. Naturforsch., A: Phys. Sci. 44, 1127 (1989).
24. P. Styring, J. D. Vuijk, I. Nishiyama, A. J. Slaney, and J. W. Goodby, J. Mater. Chem. 3, 339 (1993).
25. S. Komori, S. Hayase, and H. Terauchi, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 1, 3789 (1989).
26. S. V. Shilov, H. Skupin, F. Kremer, T. Wittig, and R. Zentel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 1686 (1997).
27. T. Nakano, T. Yokoyama, and H. Toriumi, Appl. Spectrosc. 47, 1354 (1993).
28. H. Toriumi, H. Sugusawa, and H. Watanabe, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 2 27, L935 (1988).
29. T. I. Urano, and H. Hamaguchi, Appl. Spectrosc. 47, 2108 (1993).
30. M. Dumon, H. T. Nguyen, M. Mauzac, C. Destrade, and H. Gasparoux, Liq. Cryst. 10, 475 (1991).