Ferroelectric liquid crystals do not have to be chiral
- 14 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 23 (1) , 119-120
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/23/1/020
Abstract
The occurrence of ferroelectricity in smectic-C liquid crystals is discussed and it is suggested that, for this phenomenon to occur, the requirement that the molecules must be chiral is an over-constraint.Keywords
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