Evidence of a first-order smectic-A–smectic-C* transition and its approach to tricritical behavior
| dc.contributor.author | Ratna, B R | |
| dc.contributor.author | Shashidhar, R | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nair, Geetha G | |
| dc.contributor.author | Krishna Prasad, S | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bahr, Ch | |
| dc.contributor.author | Heppke, G | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2006-05-16T07:01:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2006-05-16T07:01:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1988-03-01 | |
| dc.description | Presented at the 1st international symposium on ferroelectric liquid Crystals, held in 1987 at Archon, Bordeaux. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Evidence of a first-order smectic-A–smectic-C* (SmA-SmC*) transition is presented. Detailed x-ray studies on 4-(3-methyl-2-chloropentanoyloxy)4’-heptyloxybiphenyl show that the SmA-SmC* transition in this material is characterized by a discontinuous jump in the layer spacing (and hence in the tilt angle) and by a narrow two-phase region in which the density modulations due to the smectic-A and the smectic-C* phases coexist. Addition of a second compound drives the SmA-SmC* transition towards second order. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Physical Review A, 1988, Vol.37, 1824 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1050-2947 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1094-1622 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/1237 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | The American Physical Society | en |
| dc.relation.uri | http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v37/p1824 | en |
| dc.rights | (1988) by the American Physical Society | en |
| dc.title | Evidence of a first-order smectic-A–smectic-C* transition and its approach to tricritical behavior | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |