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Induced antiferroelectric smectic- C(*)(A) phase by doping ferroelectric- C* phase with bent-shaped molecules
1Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan and Department of Chemistry, Warsaw University, Al.Zwirki I Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland.
Abstract:
Doping of the ferroelectric Sm-C(*) phase with bent-shaped molecules induces the antiferroelectric Sm-C(*)(A) phase. The effect was observed by means of electro-optic and dielectric measurements in systems with weak interlayer interactions in which the relative strength of anticlinic-synclinic order between molecules in adjacent layers is easily controlled by external factors. Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy studies suggest that the bent-shaped molecules are not flat. They reorient upon the electric field-induced antiferroelectric-ferroelectric transition to adopt a position in which the average direction of the carbonyl groups is in the smectic plane and a bending tip along the C2 symmetry axis.
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