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Carbone G, Barberi R, Musevic I, et al. Atomic force microscope study of presmectic modulation in the nematic and isotropic phases of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl using piezoresistive force detection. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005;71(5):051704doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.051704.
Carbone, G., Barberi, R., Musevic, I., & Krzic, U. (2005). Atomic force microscope study of presmectic modulation in the nematic and isotropic phases of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl using piezoresistive force detection. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 71(5), 051704. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.71.051704
Carbone, G, et al. "Atomic force microscope study of presmectic modulation in the nematic and isotropic phases of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl using piezoresistive force detection." Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics vol. 71,5 (2005): 051704. doi: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.71.051704
Carbone G, Barberi R, Musevic I, Krzic U. Atomic force microscope study of presmectic modulation in the nematic and isotropic phases of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl using piezoresistive force detection. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 May;71(5):051704. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.051704. Epub 2005 May 05. PMID: 16089548.
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Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 May;71(5):051704. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.051704. Epub 2005 May 05.

Atomic force microscope study of presmectic modulation in the nematic and isotropic phases of the liquid crystal octylcyanobiphenyl using piezoresistive force detection.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

G Carbone, R Barberi, I Musevic, U Krzic

Affiliations

  1. Licryl - Liquid Crystal Laboratory, INFM Research Unit of Calabria c/o Physics Department, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende (CS), Italy.

PMID: 16089548 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.051704

Abstract

Using a temperature controlled atomic force microscope (AFM), we have studied surface induced pre-smectic order in the nematic and isotropic phases of 4-cyano- 4'-n -octylbiphenyl. A modified AFM head with piezoresitive cantilevers has been used to measure the structural force between a flat BK7 glass plate and a 10 microm glass sphere, both being treated to induce homeotropic alignment of the confined liquid crystal layer in between. We have observed surface-induced presmectic force not only in the isotropic, but also in the nematic phase. We have measured the temperature dependencies of the presmectic force, the smectic correlation length xi and the smectic order parameter psi at the surface. The correlation length xi(T) shows a power-law temperature dependence with a critical exponent of nu=0.67 +/- 0.03 and the bare correlation length of xi(0) = (0.39 +/- 0.08) nm, in good agreement with x-ray data. The smectic density at the surface is psi(2)(S) =0.4 in the nematic phase and decreases in the isotropic phase.

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