2001
Crystalline smectic-B films as fluctuating systems: Static and dynamic x-ray scattering
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Phys. Rev. E , Volume 63 - Issue Article number: 20601 p. 1- 4
Static and dynamic x-ray scattering has been used to characterize thermal fluctuations in free-standing smectic films in the crystalline-B phase. The results are remarkably similar to those in smectic-A films, in spite of the three-dimensional positional order in the crystalline-B phase. The main difference is the disappearance of the characteristic Landau-Peierls instability of the smectic-A phase. The dynamic nature of the fluctuations is explicitly demonstrated by x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy. This fluctuation behavior of crystalline-B films can be attributed to the small value of the shear elastic constant C44.
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Fera, A., Dolbnya, I. P., Opitz, R., Ostrovskii, B. I., & de Jeu, W. H. (2001). Crystalline smectic-B films as fluctuating systems: Static and dynamic x-ray scattering. Phys. Rev. E, 63(Article number: 20601), 1–4. |
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