Electro-Optical Phase Transition Studies ofChiral SmecticPhase of Nematic and CholestericMaterials
Author : T.N. Govindaiah, B.N. Ramakrishna and T.S.ShashikumarVolume 7 No.2 July-December 2018 pp 24-26
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Phase Transition, Chiral Smectic Phase, Transmittance Electro-Optical Studies
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