Journal of Materials Chemistry

V-Shaped switching and interlayer interactions in ferroelectric liquid crystals

A Petrenko, JW Goodby

Index: Journal of Materials Chemistry, , vol. 17, # 8 p. 766 - 782

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Citation Number: 12

Abstract

... value 156.60 °C, ΔH 28.45 J g −1 ). ... However, in the cases where the materials exhibited both smectic A and smectic C phases, for thicker cells alignment was achieved by ... of a square wave (typically 16–20 V µm −1 ) at a frequency of 50 Hz to 1 kHz depending on the material. ...