Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics. 65(1 Pt 1)
سنة النشر:
2001
الوصف:
Three optical probes have been employed on free-standing films to study surface structure and transitions of the SmC* phase of one liquid crystal compound. While the interior layers show the SmC* structure, the tilt in adjacent surface layers is found to be anticlinic. The number of anticlinic surface layers grows rapidly as the transition to the SmC*(FI2) phase is approached.
