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A previous study by means of X-ray diffraction on single domain samples of the SmF phase of TBPA allowed us to collect information concerning the nature of the order in this phase [1]: the smectic layers are weakly coupled and within the layers, there is always a pseudo hexagonal packing as in the SmH phase but which extends only to short distance with the persistence of a local “herring-hone” packing of the molecular sections.
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J.J. Benattar, J. Doucet, M. Lambert and A.M. Levelut, Phys.Rev. A20, 2505 (1979).
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B.I. Halperin, to appear in proceedings of the Kyoto Summer Institute on two-dimensional systems (1979).
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Benattar, J.J., Moussa, F., Lambert, M., Levelut, A.M. (1980). Two-Dimensional Order in the SmF Phase. In: Helfrich, W., Heppke, G. (eds) Liquid Crystals of One- and Two-Dimensional Order. Springer Series in Chemical Physics, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67848-6_6
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