CHARACTERIZATION OF FREE STANDING CHIRAL SMECTIC-C (S-C-ASTERISK) FERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL FILMS

Authors
ISLAM NU ELSTON SJ TOWLER MJ
Citation
Nu. Islam et al., CHARACTERIZATION OF FREE STANDING CHIRAL SMECTIC-C (S-C-ASTERISK) FERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL FILMS, Ferroelectrics (Print), 214(1-2), 1998, pp. 683-691
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter","Material Science
Journal title
Ferroelectrics (Print) → ACNP
ISSN journal
00150193
Volume
214
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
683 - 691
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-0193(1998)214:1-2<683:COFSCS>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Free standing ferroelectric liquid crystal films (FLCs) are used to ch aracterise some commercially important FLCs in terms of the parameters of Landau-de Gennes mean field theory. In particular, the modelling i ncluded the effects of smectic cone angle profiles present within film s as well as the effect of temperature variation on refractive indices . The results indicate that the technique may not be suitable for the reliable characterisation of FLC mixtures.