A New Twist on the Electroclinic Critical Point: Type I and Type II Smectic $C^{\ast }$ Systems

Josh Ziegler, Sean Echols, Matthew J. Moelter +1

This analysis of the electroclinic effect in ferroelectric liquid crystals with a first order Smectic-$A^{\ast }$--Smectic-$C^{\ast }$ (Sm-$A^{\ast }$--Sm-$C^{\ast }$) transition, shows they can be either…