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VOLUME 32 (1980) | ISSUE 11 |
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Steric interaction of molecules and the flexoelectric effect in smectic-C liquid crystals
Osipov M. A.
It is shown that the steric interaction of asymmetric molecules, which, as is usually assumed, determines the flexoelectric effect in nematic liquid crystals, is unimportant in describing this effect in the smectic С * phase, which produces a spontaneous polarization in the system.
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