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LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 225-231Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/026782900203029
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Dielectric studies of the first order phase transition of a ferroelectric liquid crystal material having the phase sequence chiral nematic to smectic C* have been performed using thin (2.5 mu m) cells in the frequency range 0.01 Hz to 12 MHz. For planar alignment, one of the cell electrodes was covered with a polymer and rubbed. Optically well defined alignment was obtained by applying an a.c, field below the N*-SmC* transition. Charge accumulation was enhanced by depositing a thick polymer aligning layer for the alignment of the liquid crystal molecules. A sub-hertz frequency dielectric relaxation process is detected in smectic C*, in the chiral nematic and a few degrees into the isotropic phase, due to the charge accumulation between the polymer layer and the ferroelectric liquid crystal material. The effect of temperature and bias field dependences on the sub-hertz dielectric relaxation process are reported and discussed.
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