| Abstract: | Dielectric measurements on oriented liquid crystalline substances in the frequency range from 10 Hz to 100 kHz have been carried out. The static dielectric constant parallel to the director of both single components shows a strong decrease in relation to the expected value. In the case of the swallow-tailed compound this effect can be described by assuming an equilibrium between statistically and antiparallel oriented molecules. The second component has an extremly strong tendency to be antiparallel oriented. In the mixture of both a continuous change of the correlation was observed. |
