Field-induced switching between states of opposite chirality in a liquid-crystalline phase

被引：43

作者：

Eremin, A ^{[1
]}

Diele, S ^{[1
]}

Pelzl, G ^{[1
]}

Weissflog, W ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Halle Wittenberg, Inst Phys Chem, D-06108 Halle An Der Saale, Saale, Germany

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 2003年 / 67卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevE.67.020702

中图分类号：

O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];

学科分类号：

070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;

摘要：

A tilted smectic phase of a new achiral banana-shaped mesogen is presented. It possesses liquidlike order within the layers and appears with a fan-shaped texture. At sufficiently high electric fields, this texture can be transformed into a texture that displays a complete extinction between crossed polarizers and it forms randomly distributed chiral domains. Above a threshold these domains can be reversibly switched into a state of opposite handedness.

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