bent-core liquid crystals

Switching mechanism in bent-core liquid crystals

Wednesday, January 17, 2018 - 2:00pm - 2:50pm

Sookyung Joo (Old Dominion University)

We describe the switching process in reversed tilted columnar phase and ferroelectric bistability of polarization-modulated orthogonal smectic liquid crystals (SmAP).

The reversed tilted B1 phase is a smectic tilted columnar phase in which the