Abstract
Electric and electro-optical properties of a smectic liquid crystal (LC) compound formed by rod-like molecules have been investigated in the thin film sandwich geometry typically used in solid-state technology. Thin (~ 10–30 nm) Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) films of the compound (tetradecyl homologue ( n = 14) of the series p-oxybenzylidene- p′-amino-2-methylbutyl(α-cyano)cinnamate) were transferred onto glasses covered with a transparent electrode and supplied with a top electrode evaporated in vacuum. In contrast to the LC bulk, thin films of the compound manifest only a solid crystalline phase throughout the whole temperature range (20–110 °C) investigated. Ferroelectric properties of the films (covering linear electro-optic effect, pyroeffect and polarization switching) have been observed in the whole temperature range studied.
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