Electroclinic liquid crystals with large induced tilt angle and small layer contraction |
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Authors: | Spector Heiney Naciri Weslowski Holt Shashidhar |
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Institution: | Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6950, Washington, DC 20375-5348, USA. |
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Abstract: | Optical and x-ray scattering studies of a chiral, organosiloxane smectic-A liquid crystal indicate a large field induced optical tilt of up to 31 degrees accompanied by a very small contraction of the smectic layers. This result suggests that the molecules have a nonzero tilt even with no applied field, and that the primary effect of the field is to induce long range order in the direction of the molecular tilt. |
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