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LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 883-887Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678290410001695668
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We report preliminary results of optical and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) experiments on the smectic A*-smectic C* transition in two ferroelectric liquid crystalline polysiloxanes. Although the optical tilt angle in the SmC* phases reaches values up to 30degrees, temperature-dependent SAXS measurements clearly reveal that the smectic layer spacing is basically conserved during the A*-C* transition as well as in the subsequent C* phase. Connected with the A*-C* transition we further observed a significant increase in bire-fringence, hence reflecting an increase of orientational order. The practical absence of layer shrinkage and the enhanced orientational ordering are consistent with the de Vries diffuse cone model of smectic A-smectic C transitions.
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