Possible stable structures of chiral polar smectics with significant interactions between next nearest layers

Citation
M. Cepic et al., Possible stable structures of chiral polar smectics with significant interactions between next nearest layers, MOLEC CRYST, 351, 2000, pp. 209-219
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics
Volume
351
Year of publication
2000
Pages
209 - 219
Database
ISI
SICI code
Abstract
We analyse stable structures in the model where interactions between the ne arest and the next nearest layers are taken into acount. Interactions can b e noncompeting or competing. We find five different stable structures stabl e at different values of model parameters. Three of them are already known: the ferroelectric SmC*, the antiferroelectric SmC*(A) phase and by recent experiments confirmed helicoidal shea-pitch SmC*(alpha) structure. Aditiona lly we find two structures, the structure with a primitive cell which exten ds over 2 smectic layers SmC*(2) and SmC*(4) the primitive cell cosists of 4 smectic layers.