Insights on some chiral smectic phases

Pramana

B Pansu¹ 

[1] Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Bt 510, UMR 8502, Universit Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France$$

关键词: Liquid crystals;    smectics;    chirality;    frustrated phases;    twist grain boundary phases.;   

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学科分类：物理（综合）

来源: Indian Academy of Sciences

【 摘 要 】

Combining layered positional order as smectic order and chirality can generate complex architectures since twist parallel to the layers is not allowed. This paper will review some new experimental results on different phases resulting from the competition between smectic positional order and twist orientational order. It concerns the TGBA and the NL*, that is the liquid line phase as well as the SmQ phase. Chiral effects in the isotropic phase will also be discussed.

【 授权许可】

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