FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED STUDY OF THE SWITCHING PROCESS IN A FERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER

Authors
SHILOV SV OKRETIC S SIESLER HW ZENTEL R OGE T
Citation
Sv. Shilov et al., FOURIER-TRANSFORM INFRARED STUDY OF THE SWITCHING PROCESS IN A FERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE POLYMER, Macromolecular rapid communications, 16(2), 1995, pp. 125-130
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Polymer Sciences
Journal title
Macromolecular rapid communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
10221336
Volume
16
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
125 - 130
Database
ISI
SICI code
1022-1336(1995)16:2<125:FISOTS>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
The implementation of the step-scan technique on our FT-IR spectromete r enabled us to follow the electric-field induced reorientation dynami cs of different molecular segments of a ferroelectric liquid crystalli ne polymer on a sub-millisecond time scale. It was detected that not o nly the mesogen but also the spacer and at least part of the backbone take part in the reorientation process.