ELECTRIC-FIELD RESPONSE OF AN ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL IN THEBULK AND BOUNDARY REGIONS

Citation
T. Matsuo et al., ELECTRIC-FIELD RESPONSE OF AN ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL IN THEBULK AND BOUNDARY REGIONS, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals science and technology. Section A, Molecular crystals and liquid crystals, 258, 1995, pp. 333-338
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Crystallography
ISSN journal
1058725X
Volume
258
Year of publication
1995
Pages
333 - 338
Database
ISI
SICI code
1058-725X(1995)258:<333:EROAAL>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
Optical transmission and attenuated total reflection (ATR) measurement s have been performed on antiferroelectric MHPOBC(R) liquid crystal fi lms in the chiral smectic C-A phase to investigate the electric field response of the bulk and boundary layers, respectively. In the ATR mea surement, a surface plasmon polariton is excited at the liquid-crystal /silver-film interface as a probe of the field response of the boundar y layer. A significant difference in threshold voltage as well as in f ield responsivity is found between the bulk and boundary layers. These results are discussed in short in this letter.