Ternary liquid crystalline mixture showing broad antiferroelectric smectic C${}_A$* and glassy hexatic smectic X${}_A$* phases

Aleksandra Deptuch, Anna Drzewicz, Marcin Piwowarczyk +4

A ternary liquid crystalline mixture was designed to obtain a tilted hexatic smectic phase in the glassy state. Structural, electro-optic, and dielectric properties of the mixture…