Nonplanar tilts in very thin smectic films of one liquid-crystal compound

B. K. McCoy; Z. Q. Liu; S. T. Wang; Lidong Pan; Shun Wang; J. W. Goodby; C. C. Huang

doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.79.061702

Nonplanar tilts in very thin smectic films of one liquid-crystal compound

B. K. McCoy, Z. Q. Liu, S. T. Wang, Lidong Pan, Shun Wang, J. W. Goodby, C. C. Huang

Physics and Astronomy (Twin Cities)

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Surface effects cause tilted molecular arrangements in smectic layers near the surface of a free-standing liquid-crystal film in which the bulk of the film is in the smectic- A phase. One recent work has shown that the tilt directions in adjacent surface layers may be nonplanar. In this paper we study films with thicknesses of two to six smectic layers. Surface effects dominate in these very thin films. We show that the molecular tilts are nonplanar even in these very thin films.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	061702
Journal	Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume	79
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.79.061702
State	Published - Jun 16 2009

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