The smectic ZA phase: Antiferroelectric smectic order as a prelude to the ferroelectric nematic.
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2217150120
Abstract: We have structurally characterized the liquid crystal (LC) phase that can appear as an intermediate state when a dielectric nematic, having polar disorder of its molecular dipoles, transitions to the almost perfectly polar-ordered ferroelectric nematic.… read more here.
Keywords: smectic phase; ferroelectric nematic; smectic order; phase ... See more keywords