Molecular structure and physical parameters of some ferroelectric liquid crystal systems |
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Authors: | L. S. Bezhanova Z. V. Bagdasaryan M. L. Baburyan |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Applied Problems of Physics, NAS of Armenia, Yerevan, Russia |
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Abstract: | We investigate thermodynamic properties and spontaneous polarization of ferroelectric liquid crystal (SmC*LC) systems: smectic C matrix + chiral adding (ChA). The fact of existence of an optimum concentration of ChA, for which the studied SmC*LC systems have the maximum value of spontaneous polarization, and a certain concentration, at which the phase transition of the chiral tilted smectic C phase to the smectic A phase occurs, is established. Temperature dependence curves for the free energy, configuration energy, specific heat, and the orientational order parameter are calculated in the temperature range of existence of liquid crystal mesophases. The curves are in good agreement with the experimentally observed trends of the SmC*LC properties. |
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Keywords: | ferroelectric liquid crystals phase transitions |
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