X-Ray Diffraction Intensities of a Smectic-Liquid Crystal
- 9 June 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (23) , 1509-1512
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.1509
Abstract
Higher-order diffraction from the smectic- liquid-crystalline phase of cyanooctylbiphenyl (COB) has been measured. The dominant short-range disorder, described by the relative intensities, is in agreement with our estimate of the smectic order parameter based on McMillan's mean-field theory.
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