Softmode at the ferroelectric/non ferroelectric phase-transition in a liquid crystalline polymer

1 September 1990

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Ferroelectrics

Vol. 109 (1) , 273-278
https://doi.org/10.1080/00150199008211425

Abstract

Broadband dielectric spectroscopy covering the frequency range from 10⁻¹ to 10⁷ Hz was used to analyse the softmode at the phase transition from a ferroelectric highly ordered and tilted smectic phase to the smectic A—phase in a combined side group main chain liquid crystalline polymer.

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