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Structure of liquid crystal phases /
Current understanding of different phases as well as the phase transitions between them has only been achieved following recent theoretical advances on the effects of dimensionality in statistical physics. P S Pershan explains the connection between these two separate areas and gives some examples o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; Teaneck, NJ, USA :
World Scientific,
©1988.
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| Colección: | World Scientific lecture notes in physics ;
v. 23. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Table of Contents; PART ONE; 1. Introduction; 2. Nematic Phase; 3. Smectic-A and Smectic-C Phases; 3.1. Homogeneous Smectic-A and Smectic-C Phases; 3.2. Modulated Smectic-A and Smectic-C Phases; 3.3. Surface Effects; 4. Phases with In-Plane Order; 4.1. Hexatic Phases in Two Dimensions; 4.2. Hexatic Phases in Three Dimensions; 4.3. Crystalline Phases with Molecular Rotation; 4.4. Crystalline Phases with Herringbone Packing; 5. Discotic Phases; 6. Other Phases; 7. References; PART TWO SELECTED REPRINTS; 1. Nematic to Smectic-A; 1.1 An analogy between superconductors and smectics A.
- 1.2 Measurement of smectic-A-phase order parameter fluctuations near a second-order smectic-A-nematic-phase transition1.3 Critical and tricritical behavior at the nematic to smectic-A transition; 1.4 Integrated x-ray scattering intensity measurement of the order parameter at the nematic-to-smectic-A phase transition; 2. Landau-Peierls Instability; 2.1 Remarques sur la diffusion des rayons X dans les smectiques A; 2.2 Observation of algebraic decay of positional order in a smectic liquid crystal; 2.3 Steric interactions in a model multimembrane system: a synchrotron x-ray study.
- 3. Nematic Smectic-A Smectic C Multi-Critical Point3.1 Landau-Ginzberg mean-field theory for the nematic to smectic-C and nematic to smectic-A phase transitions; 3.2 X-ray study of fluctuations near the nematic-smectic-A-smectic-C multicritical point; 4. Multiple Smectic-A Phases; 4.1 Number of SA phases; 4.2 The Smectic State; 4.3 Theory of the SA-SA phase transition in liquid crystals; 4.4 Smectic-A phase with two collinear incommensurate density modulations; 4.5 X-ray scattering study of the smectic-A1 to smectic-A2 transition.
- 4.6 X-ray studies of transitions between nematic smectic-A1 -A2 and -Ad phases5. In Plane Order-Hexatic Phases-Theory; 5.1 Theory of two dimensional melting; 5.2 Bond orientational order model for smectic B liquid crystals; 5.3 Solid and fluid phases in smectic layers with tilted molecules; 6. In Plane Order-Experiment; 6.1 Etude de l'ordre local lie a la rotation des molecules dans la phase smectique B; 6.2 Interlayer correlations in smectic B phases; 6.3 Long-range order in two and three-dimensional smectic-B liquid-crystal films.
- 6.4 High resolution x-ray study of the smectic A-smectic B phase transition and the smectic B phase in butyloxybenzylidene octylaniline6.5 X-ray observation of a stacked hexatic liquid-crystal B phase; 6.6 Synchrotron x-ray study of novel crystalline-B phases in heptyloxybenzylidene-heptylanaline; 6.7 Dislocation model for restacking phase transitions in crystalline-B liquid crystals; 6.8 X-ray scattering study of restacking transitions in the crystalline-B phases of heptyloxybenzylidene heptylanaline.