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Novel stable in-plane configurations of the director field are observed in the smectic C* phase in free-standing films of a material with high spontaneous polarization. Textures of films, thinner than 60 layers, correspond to a homogeneous isotropic or to a weak anisotropic state of plane ferroelectrics, discussed theoretically several years ago.
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Е. И. Демихов (1994) studied this question.
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