Landau-Khalatnikov dynamics of helicoidal antiferroelectric liquid crystals

1 October 1991

journal article
antiferroelectrics
Published by Taylor & Francis in Ferroelectrics

Vol. 122 (1) , 221-228
https://doi.org/10.1080/00150199108226043

Abstract

A phenomenological model of helicoidal antiferroelectric liquid crystals is analysed and the relaxational eigenfrequencies of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric modes are evaluated in the smectic A phase, in the ferroelectric smectic C* phase and in the antiferroelectric phase. In the intermediate ferrielectric phase the eigenmodes are mixtures of ferroelectric and antiferroelectric fluctuations.

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