The semi-phenomenological model of antiferroelectricity in chiral smectic liquid crystals - I. The structure of short pitch modes and a thermodynamical approach
S. Pikin et al., The semi-phenomenological model of antiferroelectricity in chiral smectic liquid crystals - I. The structure of short pitch modes and a thermodynamical approach, LIQ CRYST, 26(8), 1999, pp. 1107-1114
The development of the model of short pitch modes for ferro-, antiferro- an
d ferri-electric chiral smectic liquid crystals is presented. Prediction of
the structures of the subphases is made. The pure short pitch mode having
an n-ray star structure of the n-layers of the unit cell appears to possess
antiferroelectric properties. Ferrielectricity is assumed to arise as a re
sult of the coexistence and interaction of the short pitch mode with a long
pitch helix. Corresponding polarizational properties and fine structure of
the peaks of the resonant X-ray scattering from such structures are calcul
ated.