• Aucun résultat trouvé

QUASI ELASTIC RAYLEIGH SCATTERING IN A SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL

N/A
N/A
Protected

Academic year: 2021

Partager "QUASI ELASTIC RAYLEIGH SCATTERING IN A SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL"

Copied!
2
0
0

Texte intégral

(1)

HAL Id: jpa-00214904

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/jpa-00214904

Submitted on 1 Jan 1972

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- entific research documents, whether they are pub- lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.

L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.

QUASI ELASTIC RAYLEIGH SCATTERING IN A SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL

Orsay Liquid Crystal Group

To cite this version:

Orsay Liquid Crystal Group. QUASI ELASTIC RAYLEIGH SCATTERING IN A SMEC- TIC LIQUID CRYSTAL. Journal de Physique Colloques, 1972, 33 (C1), pp.C1-76-C1-76.

�10.1051/jphyscol:1972114�. �jpa-00214904�

(2)

JOURNAL DE PHYSIQUE Colloque C1, supplkment au no 2-3, Tome 33, Fkvrier-Mars 1972, page C1-76

QUASI ELASTIC RAYLEIGH SCATTERING IN A SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL

Orsay Liquid Crystal G r o u p

Laboratoire d e physique des Solides, Universitt d e Paris-Sud, 91-Orsay

Rbum6. - On a obtenu des Bchantillons raisonnablement uniformes de smectique C de 4-4' decyloxybenzylidene 3 chloro phknylknediamine (DOBCP) en utilisant des lames frottees et l'in- fluence d'un champ magnetique. En plus de la texture plane dkrite par le groupe de Kent nous observons une structure (( epi )) dans laquelle les plans smectiques sont normaux aux lames. Les deux textures donnent lieu 2 une forte diffusion Rayleigh que nous etudions au moyen d'un spectra- mhtre a battements lumineux.

D'aprts les regles de selection observees pour la polarisation de cette lumiere Rayleigh, on peut attribuer cette diffusion aux fluctuations de torsion excitees thermiquement des coucht:~ smectiuqes, qui sont fortement couplees aux ondes lumineuses, comme l'a predit de Gennes. Ces fluctuations sont completement amorties, comme celles qu'on a precedemment observees dans les cristaux liquides nematiques. Pour un vecteur d'onde de diffusion fixe, nous mesurons la d15pendance en fonction de la temperature de t , le temps de relaxation des fluctuations de torsion de:s couches : en passant a travers la transition smectique C -+ nematique, on trouve que t e s t quasi continu avec le temps de relaxation des fluctuations angulaires correspondantes du (( directeur dans le nematique.

L'autre mode de fluctuations angulaires dans le nematique, qui correspondrait dans 1(: smectique C 5 une modulation de l'epaisseur des couches, devient gele a la transition, comme on s'y attend.

Abstract. - We have obtained reasonably uniform smectic C samples of 4-4' decyloxybenzy- lidene 3 chloro phenylenediamine (DOBCP) using rubbed plates and the influence (sf a magnetic field. In addition to the planar texture described by the Kent Group, we observe an (( epi )) texture where the smectic planes are normal to the plates. Both texture give rise to a strong Rayleigh scatter- ing that we study with a light beat spectrometer.

From the observed polarization selection rules of this Rayleigh light, the scattering can be attri- buted to thermally excited twist fluctuations of the smectic layers, strongly coupled to the light waves, as predicted by de Gennes. These fluctuations are purely damped, as those previously observed in nematic liquid crystals. For a fixed scattering wave vector, we measure the temperature dependence of z, the relaxation time of the layer twist fluctuations : going through the smectic C + nematic transition, z is found quasi continuous with the relaxation time of the corresponding angular fluctuations of the nematic (( director )). The other mode of angular fluct~~ations in the nematic, which would correspond in the smectic C to a thickness modulation of the layers, gets frozen at the transition, as expected.

Article published online by EDP Sciences and available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/jphyscol:1972114

Références

Documents relatifs

Rayleigh sound wave propagation on a gallium single crystal in a liquid He3

In addition, the experimental results in the A and B phases show a relaxational process, which leads to an apparent finite value for the shear modulus.. Our results are

scattering) of a powder sample of partially deuterated TBBA obtained by the backscattering technique, for four temperatures in the smectic phases.. Neutron momentum

- Using light beating spectroscopy, we analyse the critical angular fluctuations of the molecules above a second order smectic-A to smectic-C transition.. Comparing

- Relaxation frequencies of the E induced distortion modes, in the presence of flexoelectric coupling fi = 0.05, versus reduced

tion of a molecular self-diffusion relaxation mechanism, (T 1 )SD’ and local molecular reorientations, (Tï 1 )R’ whereas Tïp1 is governed predominantly by order

2014 Quasi-periodic arrays of focal conic (PFC) defects, induced by dilation of a homeotropic smectic A sample, are shown to produce a characteristic multi-band

small Angle Neutron scattering experiments were carried out on liquid crystal « side- end fixed » polysiloxanes : we observe that the polymer backbone keeps an oblate shal~e in