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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Wang, S.T. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Han, X.F. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Cady, A. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Liu, Z.Q. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Kamenev, A. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Glazman, L. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Sadashiva, B.K. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Reddy, Amaranatha R. | - |
| dc.contributor.author | Huang, C.C. | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-05-18T05:35:27Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2006-05-18T05:35:27Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2004-12-21 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Physical Review E, 2004, Vol.70, 061705 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | ISSN 1550-2376 (online) | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1539-3755 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/1278 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Several unique optical properties have been obtained from freestanding films of a bent-core compound. Our experimental results indicate the existence of the antiferroelectric biaxial smectic-A (Sm A) phase. The critical exponent associated with the biaxiality through the uniaxial–antiferroelectric biaxial Sm A transition has been measured to be 0.82±0.04, which is in good agreement with our theoretical calculation. Our theoretical advances further demonstrate that the critical behavior of the optical biaxiality with the order parameter being a vector is described by the secondary-order parameter of the three-dimensional XY model. We also observe a remarkable even–odd layering effect exhibited by the surface layers of freestanding films under an applied electric field (approximately 20 V/cm) in the film plane. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 237632 bytes | - |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | - |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | The American Physical Society | en |
| dc.relation.uri | http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v70/e061705 | en |
| dc.rights | (2004) by the American Physical Society | en |
| dc.title | Optical investigations on the biaxial smectic-A phase of a bent-core compound | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (SCM) | |
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