Electro-optical properties of an orthoconic liquid crystal mixture (W-182) and its molecular dynamics

We observed that the perfect dark state problem could be solved by using orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystal (OAFLC) instead of normal AFLC by comparing the properties of isocontrast and dispersion chromaticity of W-182 OAFLC and normal AFLC CS-4001. We electro-optically observed that several subphases such as Sm C γ * , Sm C * β , Sm C * α and antiferroelectric Sm I * A phases exist in W-182 OAFLC. We dielectrically observed in 4 μ m thin cell that during heating, several new phases appeared. In the high temperature antiferroelectric region, a higher order than Sm C * phase could be detected dielectrically, in the temperature range of 91 - 98 ° C , behaving similar to Sm C γ * and also, another phase below Sm C * region could be dielectrically detected in the temperature range of 103 - 1100 ° C , behaving similar to Sm C α * , and an antiferroelectric, similar to Sm I A * phase, was observed in the lower temperature region of the antiferroelectric phase; those are definitely arising due to surface force and interfacial charges interactions. We observed both P H and P L relaxation modes in both cells, although they differed in their strength and relaxation frequency. We studied extensively our observations of P H and P L modes in the antiferroelectric region, a Goldstone mode in the ferroelectric region and a soft mode in the ferroelectric region and Sm A * phases.