Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Investigations on Microtomized Sections of Single-Crystalline Ferroelectric Liquid Crystalline Elastomers (SC-FLCE)

Abstract Microtomized sections of single-crystalline ferroelectric liquid crystalline elastomers (SC-FLCE) have been prepared. The piezoelectric (and electrostrictive) responses in these sections have been measured by means of an interferometric setup and the pyroeletric properties have been determined using the laser intensity modulation method (LIMM).