Polar order stability

Figure 5. Polar order stability as determined by thermal ramping (rate 37minute) laser frequency fundamental 1.047 //m. (a) film prepared from the poly(amic acid) PAA-5 heated to a maximum temperature of 280°C in the corona field (b) chemically imidized film of PI-5 poled at 310°C (corona field).

Figure 6. Polar order stability of PI-5(a) and PI-6(b) at various operating temperatures. The time interval at each temperature was 30 minutes.

Finally, we should mention that the asymmetry of molecular shape, polyphilic effects and conformational constraints are the dominant factors in the stabilization of polar ordering in achiral mesogens. The examples presented above are, therefore, highly significant. They show that many liquid crystalline structures are intrinsically polar and may be effectively stabilized by suitable design of the mesogenic molecules. 

Three synthetic approaches to donor-acceptor-substituted conjugated molecules with enhanced orientability in electric fields, potentially applicable to the preparation of electro-optic polymers via electric field poling, are summarized. The three approaches are parallel attachment of chromophores to a common framework, embedding the chromophore in a zwitterion, and head-to-tail oligomerization of chromophores. The oligomerization method as well as the use of dyes as curing agents are briefly discussed in relation to the stability of electric field-induced polar order in polymer matrices. 

FLC phases in the surface stabilized geometry possess a single C2 axis of symmetry, and therefore polar order and non-zero x<2) in the simple electronic dipolar model. Thus, it is not surprising that experiments aimed at measuring this property were first reported shortly after the Clark-Lagerwall invention. Early studies (14-15) described second harmonic generation in (S)-2-Methylbutyl 4-(4-decyloxybenzylideneamino)cin-namate, the first ferroelectric liquid crystal, also known as DOBAMBC (1). 

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Tinte et al.54 have carried out molecular dynamic simulations of first-principles based effective Hamiltonian for PSN under pressure and of PMN at ambient pressure that clearly exhibit a relaxor state in the paraelectric phase. Analysis of the short-to-medium range polar order allows them to locate Burns temperature Tb. Burns temperature is identified as the temperature below which dynamic nanoscale polar clusters form. Below TB, the relaxor state characterized by enhanced short-to-medium range polar order (PNR) pinned to nanoscale chemically ordered regions. The calculated temperature-pressure phase diagram of PSN demonstrates that the stability of the relaxor state depends on a delicate balance between the energetics that stabilize normal ferroelectricity and the average strength of quenched "random" local fields. 

Experience has shown that these films must have a high glass transition temperature, Qrpically > 180 C, to insure thermal stability for many years. An important focus of current research is therefore directed to the enhancement of the thermal and temporal stability of x X The stability of polar order in the thermodynamically non-equilibrium glassy state varies from polymer to polymer. Chemical attachment of the chromophore to the polymer as a sidechain (2), as part of the mainchain (J), orinacrosslinkedstructure(4), has been found to retard the relaxaticm of alignment... 

Chiral smectic ferroelectric liquid crystals are liquids that possess spontaneous polar order. Combined with their excellent processibility on silicon integrated circuits, these liquid crystals provide an attractive potential approach to synthesis of materials for second order nonlinear optics, provided adequate second order susceptibility can be obtained. Unfortunately, the second-order nonlinear optical susceptibility of the ferroelectric liquid crystals are usually low and their thermal stability is limited. Several, very interesting approaches to utilization of liquid crystals, however, were carried out. 

The early studies on electric field poling were performed mainly on the guest-host systems, for instance, DANS dissolved in thermotropic nematic liquid-crystalline polymers [12]. In this guest-host system polar order decays rapidly. The Xzz] value was about 1 pm/V. Therefore, the later investigations on guest-host systems were focused on both increasing the temporal stability as well as the x value. 

Fig. 18 Piezoelectric coefficient 13(33 of an ELCE crosslinked in the smectic-C phase. The stabilization of the polar order leads to a smectic-A phase that is also polar [36]...

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