657-666<span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" color:black;mso-ansi-language:en-in;mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:="" hi"="" lang="EN-IN">The dielectric permittivity of ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture
FLC-6980 doped with a low concentration of anthraquinone dye has been studied.
The complex permittivity has been measured in the frequency range 100 Hz to 1MHz in SmC* and SmA phase. We report the observation of relaxation modes.
Dielectric increments and the relaxation frequencies at various temperatures
have also been evaluated. Our results indicate that the relaxation frequency
and the SmC*-SmA transition temperature TC*A decrease whereas the dielectric increment
increases by about 2.5 times on ~2 % wt/wt dye addition.</span