Devil' Staircase and Frustoelectricity in Chiral Smectic-C like Liquid Crystals

References

• Chandani , A. D. L. 1989 . Jpn. J. appl. Phys. , 28 : L1265
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Furukawa , K. 1988 . Ferroelectrics , 85 : 451
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cladis , P. E. 1992 . Liq. Cryst. Today , 2 ( 3 ) : 7
   Google Scholar
• Fukui , M. 1989 . Jpn. J. appl. Phys. , 28 : L849
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chandani , A. D. L. 1989 . Jpn. J. appl. Phys. , 28 : L1261
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hatano , J. 1994 . Jpn. J. appl. Phys. , 33 : 5498 When the enantiomeric excess is high, Sm Cβ∗ is different from Sm C∗ and may belong to spr 1. [See, Panarin, Yu, P., et al., 1997, Phys. Rev. E, 55, 4345
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gleeson , H. F. [ILCC98 Strasbourg, P2–187] treated Sm Cβ∗ in a way completely different from ours. Our standpoint is that all the subphases under consideration results from a common cause; on the other hand, they tried to explain Cβ∗ alone separately
   Google Scholar
• Gorecka , E. 1990 . Jpn. J. appl. Phys. , 29 : 131
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Itoh , K. 1997 . J. Mater. Chem. , 7 : 407
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fukuda , A. 1995 . Proc. Asia Display'95 . 1995 , Hamamatsu. pp. 61
   Google Scholar
• Fukuda , A. and Matsumoto , T. 1997 . Proceedings IDW'97 . 1997 , Nagoya. pp. 355
   Google Scholar
• Fukuda , A. 1997 . Mol. Cryst. liq. Cryst. , 303 : 379
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Motoyama , H. Japanese Patent Gazettes . H8(1996)-337555 . 1996 .
   Google Scholar
• Yamashita , M. 1997 . Mol. Cryst. liq. Cryst. , 303 : 153 and references therein
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mach , P. 1998 . Phys. Rev. Lett. , 81 : 1015 In ILCC98 Strasbourg, Pindak et al. [Invited A2–11; and also see:, reported the first direct structural observation of distinct superlatice periodicities by resonant X-ray scattering. They confirmed the three-layered (q=1/3) and fourlayered (q=1/4) periods in ferri I and ferri II phases, respectively; the ferri I phase has been identified as Sm-Cγ∗ by the miscibility test [Nguyen H. T., et al., 1994, Liq. Cryst., 17, 571]. Our various experiences lead us to believe that the ferri II phase must be antiferroelectric and miscibile with AF. Without proposing any detailed structural models, they suggested that their experimental results could be explained by the X-Y (clock) model. However, we are quite puzzled about their suggestion, because the X-Y model could not explain the fact that the helicoidal structure is clearly observed optically in both Sm CA∗(q=1/3) and Sm CA∗(q ∗ 1/4) in some compounds
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cepic , M. and Zeks , Z. 1997 . Mol. Cryst. liq. Cryst. , 301 : 221
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sun , H. 1993 . J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. , 8 : 2706
   Google Scholar
• Gisse , P. 1996 . Ferroelectrics , 178 : 297
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roy , A. and Madhusudana , N. V. 1998 . Europhys. Lett. , in the press
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Seomun , S. S. 1997 . Jpn. J. appl. Phys. , 36 : 3586
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Semun , S. S. 1998 . Jpn. J. appl. Phys. , 37 : L691
   Google Scholar
• Seomun , S. S. 1998 . Liq. Cryst. , in the press
   Google Scholar
• Pauwels , H. 1998 . ILCS98, Strasbourg , : P4 – 64 .
   Google Scholar
• Clark , N. A. 1998 . Comment on Plenary B by A Fukuda at ILCC98, Strasbourg
   Google Scholar
• Bo , J. 1996 . Phys. Rev. E , 53 : R4295
   Google Scholar
• Stebler , B. 1998 . Information Display , 14 ( 2 ) : 20 Official Monthly Publication of the Society for Information Display
   Google Scholar