Plenary Lecture. Phase transitions and critical phenomena in polar smectic A liquid crystals
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- phase structures-and-transitions
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Liquid Crystals
- Vol. 5 (2) , 421-442
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02678298908045394
Abstract
Since the discovery of a phase transition between two polymorphic forms of the smectic A phase, there has been a considerable amount of experimental as well as theoretical work on strongly polar materials exhibiting different smectic A phases. These studies have led to the observation of a variety of new phase transitions and critical phenomena which are rarely encountered in any other area of condensed matter physics. We review briefly some of these important results.Keywords
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