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Nonplanar structure of molecular tilt planes in the surface layers of smectic-A free-standing liquid crystal films

X. F. Han, D. A. Olson, A. Cady, D. R. Link, N. A. Clark, and C. C. Huang
Phys. Rev. E 66, 040701(R) – Published 21 October 2002
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Abstract

We present ellipsometric results from thin free-standing films of one chiral liquid crystal compound. In the bulk SmA range with surface-induced molecular tilt, a nonplanar arrangement of the molecular orientations of the tilted surface layers is found under a small applied electric field.

  • Received 19 July 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.66.040701

©2002 American Physical Society

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X. F. Han1, D. A. Olson1, A. Cady1, D. R. Link2,*, N. A. Clark2, and C. C. Huang1

  • 1School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309

  • *Present address: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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Vol. 66, Iss. 4 — October 2002

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