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| Title: |
Broadband dielectric studies of weakly polar and non-polar liquid crystals |
| Author: |
Oka, A. Sinha, G. Glorieux, C. Thoen, J. |
| Appeared in: |
Liquid crystals |
| Paging: | Volume 31 (2004) nr. 1 pages 31-38 |
| Year: |
2004-01 |
| Contents: |
Complex dielectric permittivities, for two orientations of the director n, parallel (E || n) and perpendicular (E ⊥ n) to the probing electric field E, of the weakly polar liquid crystals (LCs) 4,4'-dihexylazoxybenzene (D6AOB) and 4,4'-diheptylazoxybenzene (D7AOB) as well as the non-polar LC diheptylazobenzene (D7AB) have been measured in the frequency range 75 kHz to 1 GHz. The measurements were performed in the nematic, smectic and isotropic phases of the LCs. The dielectric anisotropies Δε (=ε||-ε⊥) obtained from the values of dielectric permittivities at 100 kHz in the nematic phase were found to increase with decreasing temperature. However, for the DnAOBs, the Δε values are somewhat smaller than that for D7AB which does not have a permanent dipole moment. In the nematic phase two molecular relaxation processes were observed for both DnAOBs in each of the orientations—parallel and perpendicular. The four processes merge into two separate processes in the isotropic phase. For D7AB no orientational relaxations were observed in the experimental frequency range. |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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