Periodical structures in ferroelectric free suspended films with high spontaneous polarization
Demikhov E., Pikin S.A.
Nature of the anisotropic and stripe states of free standing smectic C* films with high spontaneous polarization is studied. It is demonstrated that these textures are stable only in mixtures with a high spontaneous polarization. A new mechanism of the stripe formation is proposed which phenomenologically takes into account surface polarization fields.