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Abstract
We report on a variant of the reentrant phenomena whereby a chiral compound has been added to a liquid crystalline material to form the sequence of phases cholesteric smectic A cholesteric as the temperature is varied. We present here a phase diagram which shows the effects of different concentrations of chiral additive and describe an unusual texture which appears under a polarizing microscope in the vicinity of the transition from the smectic A phase to either the reentrant cholesteric or the cholesteric phases.