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We give a short review of the experimental behavior of ferroelectric and antiferro-electric liquid crystal phases in free-standing films with emphasis on the smectic-A - ferroelectric smectic-C and ferroelectric smectic-C - antiferroelectric smectic-CA phase transitions.
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Bahr et al. (1993) studied this question.
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