Electro-Optical Phase Transition Studies ofChiral SmecticPhase of Nematic and Cholesteric Materials
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https://doi.org/10.51983/ajsat-2018.7.2.1029Keywords:
Phase Transition, Chiral Smectic Phase, Transmittance Electro-Optical StudiesAbstract
In the present work, our investigation is to study the electro-optical properties of the binary mixture of cholesteric and nematic compounds, namely, cholesteryl chloride (ChCl) and n-(4-n-butoxy benzylidene-4-n octylaniline (4O.8), which exhibits a very interesting liquid crystalline cholesteric and induced chiral smectic phases like SmA, SmC∗, SmC, and SmB phases sequentially when the specimen cooled from isotropic phase. Transmittance and electro-optical phase transition studies have also been discussed.
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