Study on the choresteric-smectic isothermal phase transition inducedby application of electric field

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A series of cholesteric liquid crystals possessing three ring structure as a mesogenic unit was synthesized. The liquid crystal exhibited an isothermal phase transition from planer phase to focal conic phase when an electric field was applied to the LC. The focal conic phase showed electro optical switching. The response time of the electro optical switching was about 600 micro s. The focal conic phase exhibited a spontaneous polarization of 5nC/cm^2. Those results indicate that the focal conic phase was a ferroelectric phase. Thus, It was shown that the cholesteric LC synthesized in this study exhibits isothermal phase transition from cholesteric phase to ferroelectric phase. The cholesteric LC shows three-states electro optical switching under application of electric field.