title: Liquid-crystal-solid interface structure at the antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition.
abstract: Total internal reflection is used to probe the molecular organization at the surface of a tilted chiral smectic liquid crystal at temperatures in the vicinity of the bulk antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transition. Data are interpreted using an exact analytical solution of a real model for ferroelectric order at the surface. In the mixture T3, ferroelectric surface order is expelled with the bulk ferroelectric-antiferroelectric transition. The conditions for ferroelectric order at the surface of an antiferroelectric bulk are presented.
authors.affiliation: Condensed Matter Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Coleman
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bardon
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Radzihovsky
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Danner
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Clark