Detection of flexoelectric effect from 4-heptyloxy-4'-cyanobiphenyl monolayers at an air-water interface by Maxwell displacement current and optical second harmonic generation

Tetsuya Yamamoto; Dai Taguchi; Takaaki Manaka; Mitsumasa Iwamoto

doi:10.1063/1.1884597

Detection of flexoelectric effect from 4-heptyloxy-4'-cyanobiphenyl monolayers at an air-water interface by Maxwell displacement current and optical second harmonic generation

J Chem Phys. 2005 Apr 22;122(16):164703. doi: 10.1063/1.1884597.

Authors

Tetsuya Yamamoto¹, Dai Taguchi, Takaaki Manaka, Mitsumasa Iwamoto

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan.

PMID: 15945695
DOI: 10.1063/1.1884597

Abstract

The flexoelectric effect of 4-heptyloxy-4'-cyanobiphenyl (7OCB) monolayers at the air-water interface is studied by Maxwell displacement current (MDC) and optical second harmonic generation measurements. Though MDC was expected to increase during the compression of 7OCB monolayers in L2L2' phase from the MDC theory developed previously, decrease of MDC was detected in these phases. This abnormalous phenomenon is found to be due to the quench of flexoelectric effect by the flow orientation of monolayers.