The behaviour of planar samples of an antiferroelectric liquid crystal under DC electric field has been studied through observations with a polarizing microscope. In the ferroelectric phase the dechiralization lines have not been observed under a vanishing electric field. They appeared with the increasing field. To explain that effect, we show by analysing the anchoring energy, that the structure of the planar helicoidal SmC$^*$ sample can exist with $\pi$-disclinations on the glass surfaces. The behaviour of such samples under an electric field is also discussed.Nous avons étudié le comportement des lignes de “déchiralisation” observées en microscopie optique polarisante sur des échantillons en géométrie planaire, d'un cristal liquide anti...
The substance MHPOBC is the oldest and still most important reference antiferroelectric liquid cryst...
The fluctuations of unwound helical structure have been observed in deformed helix ferroelectric liq...
The decrease in Goldstone mode relaxation frequency with applied dc electric field in a deformed hel...
The electric-field-induced structural rearrangement of smectic layers in the antiferroelectric and f...
We have experimentally investigated the unwinding process of the ferroelectric Sm-C* phase of a chir...
We propose an unwinding model based on helical fractures confirmed by spectroscopic and microscopic...
Scientists aspire to understand the underlying physics behind the formation of instabilities in soft...
From observation by microscope of DOBAMBC and mixtures of smectic C and cholesteric, a structure of ...
In bulk ferroelectric liquid crystals, the molecular director twists in a helix. In narrow cells, th...
Nous avons déterminé sur des échantillons monodomaines orientés par un champ électrique, par une mét...
Restricted Access.We have made the first calculations of i) the effect of an electric field on the s...
We report the dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and textural observations in surface stabilized fer...
In chiral smectic A liquid crystals, an applied electric field induces a tilt of the optic axis from...
We show that the helical superstructure in chiral smectic-C-type liquid crystal phases can, if the p...
The fundamental theoretical approach derived in A.V. Emelyanenko et al., Phys. Rev. E 74, 011705 (20...
The substance MHPOBC is the oldest and still most important reference antiferroelectric liquid cryst...
The fluctuations of unwound helical structure have been observed in deformed helix ferroelectric liq...
The decrease in Goldstone mode relaxation frequency with applied dc electric field in a deformed hel...
The electric-field-induced structural rearrangement of smectic layers in the antiferroelectric and f...
We have experimentally investigated the unwinding process of the ferroelectric Sm-C* phase of a chir...
We propose an unwinding model based on helical fractures confirmed by spectroscopic and microscopic...
Scientists aspire to understand the underlying physics behind the formation of instabilities in soft...
From observation by microscope of DOBAMBC and mixtures of smectic C and cholesteric, a structure of ...
In bulk ferroelectric liquid crystals, the molecular director twists in a helix. In narrow cells, th...
Nous avons déterminé sur des échantillons monodomaines orientés par un champ électrique, par une mét...
Restricted Access.We have made the first calculations of i) the effect of an electric field on the s...
We report the dielectric relaxation spectroscopy and textural observations in surface stabilized fer...
In chiral smectic A liquid crystals, an applied electric field induces a tilt of the optic axis from...
We show that the helical superstructure in chiral smectic-C-type liquid crystal phases can, if the p...
The fundamental theoretical approach derived in A.V. Emelyanenko et al., Phys. Rev. E 74, 011705 (20...
The substance MHPOBC is the oldest and still most important reference antiferroelectric liquid cryst...
The fluctuations of unwound helical structure have been observed in deformed helix ferroelectric liq...
The decrease in Goldstone mode relaxation frequency with applied dc electric field in a deformed hel...