Surface structures and transitions in the smectic-C* phase of one chiral liquid crystal compound.
Three optical probes have been employed on free-standing films to study surface structure and transitions of the SmC* phase of one liquid crystal compound. While the interior layers show the SmC* structure, the tilt in adjacent surface layers is found to be anticlinic. The number of anticlinic surface layers grows rapidly as the transition to the SmC*(FI2) phase is approached.
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School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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