TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermal shock tolerance of ferroelectric liquid crystal stabilized by aligned polymer fibers
AU - Fujikake, Hideo
AU - Murashige, Takeshi
AU - Sato, Hiroto
AU - Fujisaki, Yoshihide
AU - Kawakita, Masahiro
AU - Kikuchi, Hiroshi
AU - Kurita, Taiichiro
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2003/2/15
Y1 - 2003/2/15
N2 - In this paper, we report the marked enhancement of thermal shock tolerance of smectic layer structures of ferroelectric liquid crystal stabilized by aligned fine polymer fibers, which were formed by photopolymerization-induced phase separation. It was found that a smectic layer structure with such polymer fibers, which are aligned perpendicular to the smectic layer, generates no zigzag defects even after the composite film is cooled to -15°C, which is lower than the chiral smectic C-to-crystal phase-transition temperature, or heated to 100°C, which is above the chiral nematic-to-isotropic phase-transition temperature.
AB - In this paper, we report the marked enhancement of thermal shock tolerance of smectic layer structures of ferroelectric liquid crystal stabilized by aligned fine polymer fibers, which were formed by photopolymerization-induced phase separation. It was found that a smectic layer structure with such polymer fibers, which are aligned perpendicular to the smectic layer, generates no zigzag defects even after the composite film is cooled to -15°C, which is lower than the chiral smectic C-to-crystal phase-transition temperature, or heated to 100°C, which is above the chiral nematic-to-isotropic phase-transition temperature.
KW - Ferroelectric liquid crystal
KW - Polymer fiber
KW - Smectic layer deformation
KW - Thermal shock tolerance
KW - Zigzag defect
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U2 - 10.1143/JJAP.42.L186
DO - 10.1143/JJAP.42.L186
M3 - Letter
AN - SCOPUS:0242416584
VL - 42
SP - L186-L188
JO - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes
JF - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes
SN - 0021-4922
IS - 2 B
ER -