Siloxane antiferroelectric liquid crystalline dimer exhibiting two field-free zero birefringent states.

• We studied the optical and electro-optical properties of a siloxane antiferroelectric liquid crystalline dimer exhibiting a large molecular tilt that reached a maximum value of 53°. When the molecular tilt angle in the antiferroelectric phase exceeded 45°, it was found that the field-free position of the slow vibration direction, which corresponds to the largest refractive index, flipped from a position along the smectic layer normal, to a position perpendicular to it. When the tilt angle became 45°, a zero birefringent state, which was theoretically predicted by de Meyere in 1996, was also found to occur twice in the antiferroelectric phase of the siloxane dimer.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi -- Fysikalisk kemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences -- Physical Chemistry (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Atom- och molekylfysik och optik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi -- Organisk kemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences -- Organic Chemistry (hsv//eng)

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NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences -- Inorganic Chemistry (hsv//eng)

Keyword

siloxane

antiferroelectric

liquid crystalline

dimer

tilt

polarization

dimer

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