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most citedAntiferroelectric Smectic Ordering as a Prelude to the Ferroelectric Nematic:Introducing the Smectic Phase

108 citations · 194 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cond-mat.soft2024

Freely Suspended Nematic and Smectic Films and Free-Standing Smectic Filaments in the Ferroelectric Nematic Realm

Keith G. Hedlund, Vikina Martinez, Xi Chen +4

We show that stable, freely suspended liquid crystal films can be made from the ferroelectric nematic () phase and from the recently discovered polar, lamellar $\math…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 7 cited

Thermotropic reentrant isotropy and antiferroelectricity in the ferroelectric nematic realm: Comparing RM734 and DIO

Bingchen Zhong, Min Shuai, Xi Chen +6

The current intense study of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals was initiated by the observation of the same ferroelectric nematic phase in two independently discovered organic…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 4 cited

Thermotropic reentrant isotropy and antiferroelectricity in the ferroelectric nematic material RM734

Xi Chen, Min Shuai, Bingchen Zhong +6

We report a transition from the ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal () phase to a lower-temperature, antiferroelectric fluid phase having reentrant isotropic symmetry ()…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 75 cited

Observation of a uniaxial ferroelectric smectic A phase

Xi Chen, Vikina Martinez, Pierre Nacke +12

We report the smectic , a new liquid crystal phase of the ferroelectric nematic realm. The smectic is a phase of small polar, rod-shaped molecules which form two-dimensi…

cond-mat.soft2021★ 108 cited

Antiferroelectric Smectic Ordering as a Prelude to the Ferroelectric Nematic:Introducing the Smectic Phase

Xi Chen, Vikina Martinez, Eva Korblova +9

We have structurally characterized the liquid crystal phase that appears as an intermediate state when a dielectric nematic, having polar disorder of its molecular dipoles, transit…