Jaradat, S. and Brimicombe, P.D. and Southern, C. and Siemianowski, S.D. and DiMasi, E. and Osipov, M.A. and Pindak, R. and Gleeson, H.F. (2008) Unexpected field-induced phase transitions between ferrielectric and antiferroelectric liquid crystal structures. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics, 77 (1). ISSN 1063-651X
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Liquid crystals are intriguing electrically responsive soft matter systems. We report previously unexplored field-induced changes in the structures of some frustrated liquid crystal phases and describe them theoretically. Specifically, we have discovered using resonant x-ray scattering that the four-layer intermediate smectic phase can undergo either a transition to the ferrielectric (three-layer) phase or to the ferroelectric phase, depending on temperature. Our studies of intermediate phases using electric fields offer a way to test theories that describe ferroelectricity in self-assembling fluids.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 19796 |
| Keywords: | liquid crystals, phase transitions, optical display device, structure determination, X-ray scattering, liquid crystal structure, ferrielectric phase, ferroelectric phase, ferroelectricity, self-assembling fluids, Mathematics, Physics |
| Subjects: | Science > Mathematics Science > Physics |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2010 12:17 |
| Last modified: | 04 Oct 2012 13:03 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/19796 |
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