Figure 10.

Dependence of the temperature width of the Sm-A and Hex-B coexistence region on the LC film thickness. The solid line shows the result of fitting with the analytical equation $\mathsf{\Delta }T\propto {\left(1-L_0/L\right)}^2$, where $L_0\approx 0.9$ μm is the characteristic length scale (adopted from Zaluzhnyy et al. [70]). Reproduced with permission of American Physical Society.