Back to the future: 30 years in challenging smectic liquid crystal displays and in clarifying scientific wonders

Atsuo Fukuda Department of Environmental Materials Science, Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo 101‐8457, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]

Ichiro Kawamura Kawamura Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, 8‐4‐13 Tsukimino Yamato‐shi, Kanagawa‐ken, 242‐0002, Japan

Y. Suzuki Central Research and Development Laboratory, Showa Shell Sekiyu Co. Ltd., 123‐1 Shimokawairi, Atsugi‐shi, Kanagawa‐ken 243‐02, Japan

T. Hagiwara Central Research and Development Laboratory, Showa Shell Sekiyu Co. Ltd., 123‐1 Shimokawairi, Atsugi‐shi, Kanagawa‐ken 243‐02, Japan

I. Kawamura Central Research and Development Laboratory, Showa Shell Sekiyu Co. Ltd., 123‐1 Shimokawairi, Atsugi‐shi, Kanagawa‐ken 243‐02, Japan

N. Okamura Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O‐okayama, Meguro‐ku, Tokyo 152, Japan

T. Kitazume Department of Bioengineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O‐okayama, Meguro‐ku, Tokyo 152, Japan

M. Kakimoto Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O‐okayama, Meguro‐ku, Tokyo 152, Japan

Y. Imai Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O‐okayama, Meguro‐ku, Tokyo 152, Japan

Y. Ouchi Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O‐okayama, Meguro‐ku, Tokyo 152, Japan

H. Takezoe Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O‐okayama, Meguro‐ku, Tokyo 152, Japan

A. Fukuda Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O‐okayama, Meguro‐ku, Tokyo 152, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]

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Abstract

A Commentary on the paper ”New fluorine‐containing ferroelectric liquid crystal compounds showing tristable switching„, by Y. Suzuki, T. Hagiwara, I. Kawamura, N. Okamura, T. Kitazume, M. Kakimoto, Y. Imai, Y. Ouchi, H. Takezoe and A. Fukuda. First published in Liquid Crystals, 6, 167‐174 (1989).

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†. Note added in proof.—Recently we confirmed that the third state is a novel antiferroelectric chiral smectic phase Citation23.

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