Chirality Transfer between Weakly Birefringent and Electric-Field-Induced Highly Birefringent B2 Phases in a Bent-Core Mesogen
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Abstract
Electric-field-induced transition was observed for the weakly birefringent chiral B2 phase, which is formed from the banana molecule based on the naphthalene bent core. This phase is considered to possess the twisted grain boundary (TGB)-like helical structure. When an electric field is applied, the TGB-like helix unwinds. The resulting large domain of the SmC(A)P(A) phase shows the high birefringence and simultaneously the antiferroelectric switching between SmC(A)P(A) and SmC(S)P(F) states. Through this field-induced transformation, two interesting features are obtained. First, the initially formed chiral domains are preserved even after the field-induced transformation to the unwound SmC(A)P(A) phase. This indicates the close correlation between the TGB-like helix and the layer chirality in such a way that the helical sense of the TGB-like helix is memorized as the layer chirality of the homochiral SmC(A)P(A) phase. Second, there is a critical temperature, above which the helicoidal structure is stable against the electric field. There is a competition between winding into a TGB-like structure and unwinding due to the electric field, and at higher temperatures, the helicoidal power is too strong to surpass the effect of the electric field.
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