1. PHASE CONJUGATION IN ACOUSTICS
2. On a microscopic scale (the scale of a smectic layer) starred (*) phases and non-starred phases differ by the absence in the starred phases of a mirror plane. While the notation is not yet universal, on a macroscopic scale, starred phases have a helix structure while unstarred ones do not.
3. Symmetry and defects in the CM phase of polymeric liquid crystals
4. Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals with New Chiral Building Blocks
5. Smectic Q*is reminiscent of blue phases that occur between the isotropic liquid and cholesteric liquid crystals with a tightly twisted pitch (∼ 2000 Å). Apart from the initial observation of Levelutet al.of its structure [1], very little is known, even at this time, about smectic Q*. Here we do not discuss our observations made on this phase.