A Phase Diagram of the Nematic, Smectic A and Smectic C phases in Liquid Crystals

Authors : S SALİHOĞLU and H YURTSEVEN

Pages : 1087-1096

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Publication Date : 0000-00-00

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In this study we have obtained a phase diagram for the nematic, smectic A and smectic C phases in liquid crystals. For this phase diagram we have studied two different mean field models for a mixture of liquid crystalline system. In our first model we consider the NC and AC transitions as first order, and the NA transition as a second order. In our second model we consider the NC and NA transitions as first order, and the AC transition as a second order.
Keywords : Turk J Phys, 22, 1998, 1087 1096 Turk J Phys, vol 22, iss 12