ELECTROOPTIC INVESTIGATIONS OF ENANTIOMERIC MIXTURES OF THE ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL TFMHPOBC

Authors
LI JF STOTT JJ SHACK EA WANG XY PETSCHEK RG ROSENBLATT C SUZUKI Y
Citation
Jf. Li et al., ELECTROOPTIC INVESTIGATIONS OF ENANTIOMERIC MIXTURES OF THE ANTIFERROELECTRIC LIQUID-CRYSTAL TFMHPOBC, Liquid crystals, 23(2), 1997, pp. 255-261
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Crystallography
Journal title
Liquid crystals → ACNP
ISSN journal
02678292
Volume
23
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
255 - 261
Database
ISI
SICI code
0267-8292(1997)23:2<255:EIOEMO>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
Measurements are reported for the polarization in the ordered phase, a nd for the tilt susceptibility in the 'disordered' smectic A phase, of mixtures of left- and right-handed enantiomers of TFMHPOBC. The tilt susceptibility was found to exhibit a critical exponent gamma = 1.20 /- 0.05, and both its magnitude and the polarization were found to be nonmonotonic in enantiomeric excess X of S-TFMHPOBC. Their ratio, howe ver, was found to be approximately constant with X. Several possible e xplanations are examined.