Abstract
Three optical probes have been employed on free-standing films to study surface structure and transitions of the SmC* phase of one liquid crystal compound. While the interior layers show the SmC* structure, the tilt in adjacent surface layers is found to be anticlinic. The number of anticlinic surface layers grows rapidly as the transition to the SmC* F12 phase is approached.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 010704 |
| Pages (from-to) | 010704/1-010704/4 |
| Journal | Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2002 |
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