Experimental investigation of the compressible continuum theory of a homeotropically aligned ferroelectric liquid crystal
作者:
A. MAZZULLA,
J. R. SAMBLES,
期刊:
Liquid Crystals
(Taylor Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 6
页码: 727-733
ISSN:0267-8292
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1080/026782997208848
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
The optical tensor configuration in a homeotropically aligned ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC), SCE13 cell, is investigated by means of optical excitation of half leaky guided modes. A thin slab of FLC is confined between a high index pyramid and a low index substrate whose indices bound those of the liquid crystal. In this geometry there exists a small angle range over which a series of sharp resonant modes may propagate in the liquid crystal. Detecting the angular dependent reflectivity for plane polarized radiation and subsequently fitting the data by iteratively modelling from multilayer Fresnel theory, a full characterization of the tilt and twist profile throughout the cell is achieved. The temperature dependence of the tilt of the principal director, which is related to the smectic cone angle, and of the optical permittivity, as well as the pitch have been obtained. The tilt director profile across the cell is interpreted using a compressible continuum theory for SmC* liquid crystals which includes the possibility of variable cone angle and layer spacing.
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