SUBMICROSECOND PRELIMINARY PROCESS OF ELECTRIC-FIELD-INDUCED REORIENTATION OF A FERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL, 5-(2-FLUOROALKOXY)-2-(4-N-ALKYLPHENYL)-PYRIMIDINE, STUDIED BY TIME-RESOLVED INFRARED-SPECTROSCOPY
N. Katayama et al., SUBMICROSECOND PRELIMINARY PROCESS OF ELECTRIC-FIELD-INDUCED REORIENTATION OF A FERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL, 5-(2-FLUOROALKOXY)-2-(4-N-ALKYLPHENYL)-PYRIMIDINE, STUDIED BY TIME-RESOLVED INFRARED-SPECTROSCOPY, Applied spectroscopy, 49(7), 1995, pp. 977-980
Pulsed electric-field-induced reorientation of a ferroelectric liquid
crystal (FLC), 5-(2-fluorooctyloxy)-2-(4-hexylphenyl)-pyrimidine has b
een investigated by using a dispersive submicrosecond time-resolved in
frared spectroscopic technique, The observed absorbance decay for a ba
nd at 1440 cm(-1) due to a ring-stretching mode of the phenylpyrimidin
e group indicates that the FLC molecule reorients from a stationary st
ate with a slight delay (less than 1 mu s) just after the upswing of t
he electric field, while counter-reorientation occurs with a delay tim
e of a microsecond after the reverse of the electric field, The delay
time for the counter-reorientation changes with temperature, indicatin
g that the viscosity has a strong influence on the delay time, It is a
lso indicated in the present study that the whole FLC molecule reorien
ts simultaneously as a rigid rod in both the preliminary and the count
er-reorientation process.