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LIQUID CRYSTALS
卷 50, 期 4, 页码 584-595出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2023.2180099
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Ferroelectric nematic; liquid crystals; dielectric spectroscopy; theory of dielectric response
In this study, the dielectric properties of a polar nematic phase (N-F) sandwiched between two gold or ITO electrodes were investigated. It was found that the Phason mode could be easily quenched by an electric field and was influenced by boundary conditions.
We studied the dielectric properties of a polar nematic phase (N-F) sandwiched between two gold or ITO electrodes, serving as a cell surface. In bulk, N-F is expected to exhibit a Goldstone mode (phason), because polarisation can uniformly rotate with no energy cost. However, because the coupling between the direction of nematic director and polarisation is finite, and the confinement, even in the absence of the aligning surface layer, induces some energy cost for a reorientation of polarisation, the relaxation frequency of the phason mode is measured in a kHz regime. The phason mode is easily quenched by a bias electric field, which enables fluctuations in the magnitude of polarisation to be followed in both the ferroelectric and paraelectric nematic phases. This amplitude (soft) mode is also influenced by boundary conditions. A theory describing the phase and amplitude fluctuations in the N-F phase shows that the free energy of the system and, consequently, the dielectric response are dominated by polarisation-related terms with the flexoelectricity being relevant only at a very weak surface anchoring. Contributions due to the nematic elastic terms are always negligible. The model relates the observed low-frequency mode to the director fluctuations weakly coupled to polarisation fluctuations.
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