Abstract
AbstractDielectric spectroscopy in the microwave regime (106–1010 Hz) is employed to study the molecular dynamics of a set of ferroelectric liquid‐crystalline side group polymers with variable spacer length and different molecular weight, and on their low‐molecular‐weight counter‐part. One relaxation process is observed, the β‐relaxation, which is assigned to the hindered rotation of the mesogens around their long molecular axis. This librational process is nearly uninfluenced by the molecular weight and depends only slightly on the spacer length. At the smectic‐smectic phase transition SA/SC* the β‐relaxation does not decrease in its relaxation strength and shows no slowing down of its relaxation rate. This is in pronounced contrast to the common explanation of the origin of ferroelectricity in liquid crystals and requires a new interpretation.
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