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Effect of pressure on the dielectric behavior of a bent-core liquid crystal

Prasad N. Bapat, D. S. Shankar Rao, S. Krishna Prasad*, U. S. Hiremath, and C. V. Yelamaggad

  • Centre for Soft Matter Research, Jalahalli, Bangalore 560013, India

  • *skpras@gmail.com
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Phys. Rev. E 87, 042504 – Published 19 April, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.87.042504

Abstract

We report the effect of applied pressure on the dielectric properties of the B2 phase of a bent-core liquid crystal. This study on bent-core banana-shaped molecules shows that while the dielectric anisotropy hardly varies with pressure, the relaxation parameters associated with the rotation around the long axes of the molecules are significantly influenced. These studies also bring out the fact that there are additional phases between the B2 phase and the true crystalline solid. Indeed, the existence of another variant of the B2 phase (labeled B2′), is revealed only in dielectric studies but not seen in x-ray and calorimetric measurements. Employing the dependence of the relaxation frequency along isobaric as well as isothermal paths, different activation parameters are determined and their behavior is compared with those of rodlike systems. The influence of dc bias on the dielectric behavior obtained at atmospheric pressure is also presented, which exhibits features similar to chiral antiferroelectric smectics, and further shows an additional relaxation over a small window of dc voltages.

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Phys. Rev. E 87, 042504– Published 19 April, 2013
  • Received 22 October 2012

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