Preliminary communication Anomalous behaviour of photoactive free-standing smectic films under illumination
1997
Illumination of free-standing smectic films doped with azo dyes produces bubbles in the SmA phase; these cannot be observed in bulk samples. The bubbles appear in the films with some time delay after the beginning of illumination. This time delay depends linearly on (T where T is the smectic A-isotropic transition temperature. This dependence shows that IA illumination induces in the interior of the films a smectic A-isotropic phase transition. The SmC* in-plane director field configuration depends on the orientation of the polarization plane of the incident light. In the SmC* phase no bubbles are observed even on continuous illumination. T), IA
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