International
Tables for
Crystallography
Volume B
Reciprocal space
Edited by U. Shmueli

International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. B. ch. 4.4, p. 450   | 1 | 2 |

Figure 4.4.1.2 

P. S. Pershana*

aDivision of Engineering and Applied Science and The Physics Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Correspondence e-mail: pershan@deas.harvard.edu

[Figure 4.4.1.2]
Figure 4.4.1.2

Schematic illustration of the real-space molecular order and the scattering cross sections in reciprocal space for the: (a) nematic; (b) smectic-A; and (c), (d) smectic-C phases. The scattering cross sections are enclosed in the boxes. Part (c) indicates the smectic-C phase for an oriented monodomain and (d) indicates a polydomain smectic-C structure in which the molecular axes are aligned.