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Relaxation processes in the ferrielectric and alphaphases of antiferroelectric liquid crystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 1998

F. Bibonne
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Interactions Ondes-Matière ( UMR CNRS 5501), ENSCPB, avenue Pey-Berland, BP 108, 33 402 Talence Cedex, France
J. P. Parneix*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Physique des Interactions Ondes-Matière ( UMR CNRS 5501), ENSCPB, avenue Pey-Berland, BP 108, 33 402 Talence Cedex, France
H. T. Nguyen
Affiliation:
Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal (UPR CNRS 8641), avenue A. Schweitzer, 33 600 Pessac Cedex, France
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Abstract

Dielectric measurements of a new antiferroelectric liquid crystal series exhibiting different phase sequences have been carried out as a function of frequency from 10 Hz to 10 MHz. Structural properties of SCα* and ferrielectric SCFI* phases were discussed on the basis of the experimental results of temperature and dc bias field dependencies of the dielectric modes. Besides the soft mode observed around the SA−SCα* phase transition, a Goldstone mode was detected in the SCα* phase indicating a helicoidal structure with small pitch values. In agreement with a bilayer ordering model, the dielectric absorption in the SCFI* phase was splitted up into two contributions: one related to a Goldstone mode and the other to an azimuthal antiphase mode.

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© EDP Sciences, 1998

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