Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.439, 2045-2053, 2005
Study of structural transition in low-temperature ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture
The structures as well as the SmA*-SmC* transition of a ternary mixture that has ferroelectric phase in the range of room temperature have been investigated by means of both X-ray and optical microscopy methods. The low temperature ferroelectric mixture exhibits all typical spatial structural properties peculiar to layer-shrinking ferroelectric liquid crystal compounds.
Keywords:low-temperature ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture;small angle X-ray scattering;spatial structure