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We find that in the ordinary smectic-A phase, the spatial distribution of the counterions of the mesogens is approximately uniform, whereas in the wide smectic-A phase, the small counterions accumulate in between the smectic layers. Due to this phenomenology, the wide smectic-A phase could be interesting for applications, which hinge on the presence of conductivity channels for mobile ions.Using self-consistent field theory, we systematically explore the microphase separation in the class of two-component miktoarm star copolymer