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Section 5: Antiferro- and ferroelectric properties

Optic, electrooptic and dielectric properties of novel antiferroelectric liquid crystal compounds

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Pages 147-157 | Received 30 Aug 1999, Published online: 09 Mar 2011
 

Abstract

The optic, electrooptic and dielectric spectroscopy characterisation of novel four-ring thiophene-based chiral esters comprising suitably 5, 5′-disubstituted 2, 2′-bithiophene (antiferro- electrics) is reported. The two compounds exhibit interesting hysterises in their phase sequences, and we show that even whole phases (e.g. their relatively wide ferri-phases) may be suppressed by the surface interactions in thin cells.

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