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Ferroelectricity and Antiferroelectricity in Smectics

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The discussion of ferroelectricity in liquid crystalline phase is based on the concepts developed for the solid crystals. Therefore, we have to start from a brief survey of the elementary physics of ferroelectricity in crystals [1, 2].

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Blinov, L.M. (2011). Ferroelectricity and Antiferroelectricity in Smectics. In: Structure and Properties of Liquid Crystals., vol 123. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8829-1_13

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