title: Nonplanar structure of molecular tilt planes in the surface layers of smectic-A free-standing liquid crystal films.
abstract: We present ellipsometric results from thin free-standing films of one chiral liquid crystal compound. In the bulk SmA range with surface-induced molecular tilt, a nonplanar arrangement of the molecular orientations of the tilted surface layers is found under a small applied electric field.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
authors.forename: X F
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Olson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cady
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Link
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Huang