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Polymer-Stabilized Antiferroelectric Liquid Crystals

Hirokazu Furue and Hiroshi Yokoyama¹

(Received May 12, 2003; accepted for publication July 10, 2003)

In smectic liquid crystals (SmLCs) with no nematic phase in the phase sequence, such as antiferroelectric SmLCs and SmLCs with V-shaped electrooptical switching, it is hard to obtain LC cells with a uniform molecular alignment structure. The direct transition from the isotropic phase to the Sm phase during cooling gives rise to a nonuniform Sm layer structure due to the dispersion of the layer normal. We propose a method of fabricating defect-free SmLC cells with a uniform Sm layer structure using polymer stabilization or the phase separation of the SmLC and the polymer.

URL: http://jjap.jsap.jp/link?JJAP/42/6180/
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.42.6180

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