The effect of confinements on phase behaviour of the mixture possessing smectic C_A phase

V. A. Lapanik Institute of Applied Physics Problems, Kurchatova 7, Minsk, 220064, Belarus

A. A. Muravski Institute of Applied Physics Problems, Kurchatova 7, Minsk, 220064, Belarus

S. Ye. Yakovenko Institute of Applied Physics Problems, Kurchatova 7, Minsk, 220064, Belarus

W. Drzewinski Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

K. Czuprynski Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

R. Dabrowski Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

Abstract

We present experimental data on the phase behaviour of a mixture possessing SmC_A* phase, which show that the balance between ferroelectric and antiferroelectric states is very mobile and can be shifted in favour of ferroelectric phase by weak external forces due to aligning surfaces.

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