Dielectric properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals with lateral group in the core

Alexej M. Bubnov; Milada Glogarova; Vera Hamplova; Miroslav Kaspar

doi:10.1117/12.472138

27 June 2002 Dielectric properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals with lateral group in the core

Alexej M. Bubnov, Milada Glogarova, Vera Hamplova, Miroslav Kaspar

Proceedings Volume 4759, XIV Conference on Liquid Crystals: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472138
Event: XIV Conference on Liquid Crystals, Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, 2001, Zakopane, Poland

Abstract

Two series of ferroelectric liquid crystalline materials, non-substituted and containing a methoxy lateral group at the aromatic ring of the molecular core have been investigated by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy in the range from 1 Hz to 1 MHz. All compounds exhibit chiral SmC* phase. A low temperature ferroelectric phase, consisting of the ordinary SmC* phase and a crystalline phase, was detected in three of the investigated compounds. The frequency dispersion reveals two modes (denoted as mode 1 and mode 2) detected in both ferroelectric phases. The analysis of the frequency dispersion of the complex permittivity provides relaxation frequency and dielectric strength of these modes. In the SmC* phase, high frequency mode 1 is the Goldstone mode. Low frequency mode 2 is attributed to a non-homogenous distribution of ionic space charge, which is localized near the surfaces. The values of P_s in the low temperature ferroelectric phase are lower than in the ordinary SmC* phase for the methoxy substituted compounds but shows no anomaly for the non-substituted material.

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Alexej M. Bubnov, Milada Glogarova, Vera Hamplova, and Miroslav Kaspar "Dielectric properties of ferroelectric liquid crystals with lateral group in the core", Proc. SPIE 4759, XIV Conference on Liquid Crystals: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, (27 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472138

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