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Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Volume 225, 1993 - Issue 1
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Pretransitional Surface Phenomena in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

T. Moses Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
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Y. Ouchi Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720; Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2–12–1 O-Okayama, Meguroku, Tokyo, 152, Japan
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W. Chen Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720; Greyhawk Systems, Inc., 1557 Centre Pointe Drive, Milpitas, CA, 95035
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Y. R. Shen Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
Pages 55-65 | Received 31 Mar 1992, Published online: 24 Sep 2006
 
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Abstract

Surface ordering in a ferroelectric liquid crystal was studied using ellipsometry. We observed a pretransitional divergence of the correlation length in the smectic A phase, as the smectic A-smectic C* transition was approached. In the isotropic phase, we measured the pretransitional growth of an ordered surface layer near the isotropic-smectic A transition. The observed surface phenomena support the model of a surface electroclinic effect at the smectic A-smectic C* transition in ferroclectric liquid crystals.

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