A surface forces platform for dielectric measurements
A surface forces platform for dielectric measurements
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用于介电测量的表面力平台
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2003
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S. Granick
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Yoon‐Kyoung Cho;S. Granick
Methods are described to implement dielectric spectroscopy (frequency range 10−1–106 Hz) within a surface forces apparatus by using as electrodes silver sheets on the backside of mica. These methods are applied to study the competitive effects of surface alignment, confinement, and shear field on 5CB (5-cyanobiphenyl), a nematic liquid crystal at the experimental temperature of 25 °C. In the planar orientation, films could be squeezed to a minimum thickness of ≈5 A, the molecule’s thickness. In the perpendicular (homeotropic) orientation, films could be squeezed to ≈25 A, the expected thickness of the head-to-tail 5CB dimer. It was difficult to discuss responses at f>105 Hz quantitatively because the peak was not visible in the experimental frequency window. Nonetheless, the onset of the relaxation mode for the planar oriented molecules appears at higher frequency than for the homeotropic orientation. A slower relaxation mode, peaked at f≈10 Hz, was assigned to electrode polarization due to the mobility o...