| dc.contributor.author | VIJ, JAGDISH | en |
| dc.contributor.author | PANOV, VITALI | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2008-06-24T12:56:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2008-06-24T12:56:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | 2006 | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | V. P. Panov, B. K. McCoy, Z. Q. Liu, J. K. Vij, J. W. Goodby and C. C. Huang, Investigations of nano-scale helical pitch in SmCá* and SmC* phases of a chiral smectic liquid crystal using differential optical reflectivity measurements, Physical Review E, 74, 2006, 011701-1 - 011701-7 | en |
| dc.identifier.other | Y | en |
| dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
| dc.description | (also reprinted in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology) | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Differential optical reflectivity (DOR) was used to study the temperature dependence of the short helical pitch in freestanding films of a liquid crystal compound. The experimentally measured DOR signal was fitted using Berreman's 4?4 matrix method to get the pitch value in the smectic-C (SmC) phase. The results show continuous evolution of the pitch between the smectic-C* and SmC phases. In SmC, the pitch decreases as temperature increases and is found to level off at 16?1 smectic layers at the SmC to smectic-A* transition. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | V.P.P. was supported
by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and
Technology IRCSET . J.K.V. thanks the Science Foundation
of Ireland for funding the facilities Grant No. SFI 02-INII31
. B.K.M., Z.Q.L., and C.C.H. are supported in part by
the National Science Foundation, Solid State Chemistry Program,
under Grant No. DMR-0106122. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 011701-1 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 011701-7 | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Physical Review E | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 74 | en |
| dc.rights | Y | en |
| dc.subject | Electronic & Electrical Engineering | en |
| dc.title | Investigations of nano-scale helical pitch in SmCá* and SmC* phases of a chiral smectic liquid crystal using differential optical reflectivity measurements | en |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
| dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/jvij | en |
| dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/vpanov | en |
| dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 44767 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.74.011701 | en |
| dc.identifier.rssuri | http://scitation.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=PLEEE8000074000001011701000001&idtype=cvips&prog=normal | en |
| dc.contributor.sponsor | Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/17673 | |
