Abstract

It is shown that the surface plays a crucial role in the V-shaped switching and the inclinations of smectic planes from the normal to a substrate on sufficiently large angles δ may play the role of importance for the observed phenomena. The effects of bulk and surface domains, polarization charges and free ions are considered. The physical reasons for the V-shaped switching in new AFLCs are discussed.

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