Abstract
Detailed heat-capacity measurements have been carried out on free-standing liquid-crystal films of n-heptyl-4'-n-pentyloxybisphenyl-4-carboxylate to investigate the nature of transitions related to surface crystal-E order. Distinct thermal hystereses are observed. Upon heating from the temperature range exhibiting surface crystal-E order and interior hexatic order, anomalous effects on the interior hexatic-B-smectic-A transition, which strongly depend on the film thickness, are evident.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | R6162-R6165 |
| Journal | Physical Review A |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | 10 |
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| State | Published - 1992 |