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Bidimensional instability in antiferroelectric liquid crystals

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dc.creator Becchi M.
dc.creator Ponti S.
dc.creator Strigazzi A.
dc.creator Chigrinov V.
dc.creator Torgova S.
dc.date 2002
dc.date.accessioned 2013-06-01T09:26:22Z
dc.date.available 2013-06-01T09:26:22Z
dc.date.issued 2013-06-01
dc.identifier http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-97332002000300022
dc.identifier http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=01039733&date=2002&volume=32&issue=2b&spage=602
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/7817
dc.description In the last decade it has been experimentally found a periodic domain pattern arising in smectic C* liquid crystals in surface stabilized bookshelf geometry. Such a periodic texture appears after switching-off an external electric field, even in strong anchoring conditions. It has a static character and can be bidimensional, being dependent on both directions normal to the smectic planes and normal to the cell plates. In the present work an explanation to this phenomenon is proposed. According to our model in the antiferroelectric phase the biperiodic texture is a threshold phenomenon, appearing for values of the spontaneous polarization greater than a critical value, whereas in the ferroelectric phase this type of bidimensional instability is hindered.
dc.publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Física
dc.source Brazilian Journal of Physics
dc.title Bidimensional instability in antiferroelectric liquid crystals


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