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Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Incorporating the Optically Active γ-Lactone Ring

Mitsuhiro Koden, Tomoaki Kuratate, Fumiaki Funada, K. Awane, Kazuhiko Sakaguchi, Yutaka Shiomi, Tohru Kitamura

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics · 1990 · 28 citations · 8 references

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Ferroelectric liquid crystals incorporating an optically active γ-lactone ring were prepared. They show enantiotropic smectic C phases which have very large spontaneous polarizations as large as ∼590 nC/cm 2 (5.9 mC/m 2 ). The large spontaneous polarizations are attributed to the structural features wherein a dipole and two chiral centers are fixed in the γ-lactone ring.

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