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Two new effects specific to ferroelectric liquid crystals are described: (a) ferroelectric polar surface interactions and (2) spontaneous splay of the polarization. It is shown that a consequence of these effects is the possibility of first-order reorientation transitions induced by applied electric fields.
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Handschy et al. (1983) studied this question.
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