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Displays and antiferroelectric liquid crystals

Soft Condensed Matter 2018-02-12 v1

Abstract

Recently we have formulated theory of bi-layer-dimerized chiral liquid antiferroelectric crystals. The spontaneous polarization has been increased owing to the strong interaction of the aromatic cores of the rod like liquid crystal molecules with the honey-comb pattern of the CNT walls The SmC*A ordering is improved around the CNTs. All relaxation modes in each phase are facilitated by dispersion of nanotubes whicg enhances the relaxation frequencies. This composite system with improvement in electro-optical properties can be exploited in modern display applications. SmC* LC were studied by one of t he authors (OH), namely their transition from the SmC phase. The role of disclinations in an applied electric field was studied by O. Hudak in the SmC* structure. While the role of fluctuations and of disclinations in the SmC* (FLC)was studied in the above papers, the role of fluctuations and disclinations in SmC*A and the role of addition of MWCNTs in SmC*A phaseis not well understood. Our theoretical description of (AFLC) including SmC*A introduced in may thus be used to study these effects.

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@article{arxiv.1802.03383,
  title  = {Displays and antiferroelectric liquid crystals},
  author = {Ondrej Hudak and Matej Hudak and Jana Tothova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03383},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

4 pages, conference preprint

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