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Title: Electrooptical properties of the uniform chevron state of a ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal

Journal Article · · Crystallography Reports
OSTI ID:412032
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  1. NIOPIK Research and Production Association of Organic Intermediaries and Dyes, Moscow (Russian Federation)

The influence of additives when introduced into the orienting agent on the orientation quality of the SmF phase of a liquid crystal (FLC) was studied. The conditions which allow bistable switching of the FLC with low spontaneous polarization P{sub s}(P{sub s} = 5 nCoul/cm{sup 2}) were determined. A model of smectic layers structure was suggested and the peculiarities of the optical transmission of thin chevron FLC cells were investigated. 8 figs., 5 refs.

OSTI ID:
412032
Journal Information:
Crystallography Reports, Vol. 40, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: 1995; TN: Translated from Kristallografiya; 40: No. 1, 141-144(1995)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English