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Smectic-A —Smectic-C* —Smectic-C Multicritical Point in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

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We report a smectic-A–smectic-C–smectic-C* (ACC*) multicritical point in mixtures of chiral DOBAMBC [p-(n-decyloxybenzylidene)-p-amino-(2-methyl-butyl)] cinnamate and achiral 10O.8 (4-decyloxybenzylidene-4-octylaniline). Studies of the phase diagram, tilt angle (θ), polarization (P), and helix pitch (p) indicate an ACC* Lifshitz point that can be described in terms of the extended Landau theory. Specifically, the T*AC and the maximum polarization (Pm) exhibit quadratic composition dependence while the helical pitch length (p=2π/q) varies linearly. Both q and Pm vanish discontinuously at the C-C* phase boundary revealing its first order nature, consistent with a possible Lifshitz point.
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1994-05-30T07:00:00Z
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Ferroelectric crystals
Liquid crystals -- Electric properties
Crystal optics
Chemistry
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Smectic-A —Smectic-C* —Smectic-C Multicritical Point in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/chem_fac/78
info:doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.3558
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/context/chem_fac/article/1077/viewcontent/rananavare_smectic_A.pdf
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