scholarly journals Enhancing and reducing chirality by opposite circularly-polarized light irradiation on crystalline chiral domains consisting of nonchiral photoresponsive W-shaped liquid crystal molecules

Soft Matter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (38) ◽  
pp. 7937-7942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suk-Won Choi ◽  
Hideo Takezoe
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaoming Zhang ◽  
Takunori Harada ◽  
Adriana Pietropaolo ◽  
Yuting Wang ◽  
Yue Wang ◽  
...  

Preferred-handed propeller conformation was induced by circularly polarized light irradiation to three amorphous molecules with trigonal symmetry, and the molecules with induced chirality efficiently exhibited blue circularly polarized luminescence. In...


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 220
Author(s):  
Boxuan Gao ◽  
Jeroen Beeckman ◽  
Kristiaan Neyts

We demonstrate a laser beam combiner based on four photo-patterned Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) phase gratings, which is compact and has high diffraction efficiency for incident circularly polarized light. The nematic liquid crystal mixture E7 is used as anisotropic material, and the thickness of the layer is controlled by spacers. The beam combiner can bring two parallel laser beams closer to each other while remaining parallel. This work shows the potential to realize components based on flat optical LC devices.


Author(s):  
Peerasak Chantngarm ◽  
Kou Yamada

We present an analytical study of effects that off-resonant circularly polarized light irradiation has on spin-valley currents in dual ferromagnetic-gate silicene-based junctions. Two identical electric fields are applied to both ferromagnetic (FM) gates. Two types of exchange field configurations, parallel (P) and anti-parallel (AP), are applied along with chemical potential to the FM gates in this investigation. The results show that application of circularly polarized light has an impact on polarized spin and valley current characteristics, particularly at the off-resonant frequency region. It also enhances the amplitude of tunnelling magnetoresistance (TMR) significantly. In addition, we found that exchange field configuration has an effect on both spin polarization and valley polarization. Our study reveals that light intensity plays the main role on the light irradiation effects, where the band structure and change electronic properties of the materials are modified by photon dressing to create a new phase of electronic structure. The change of band structure in each region affects the transmission coefficients and transmission probability amplitude of electrons, which in turn affects the conductance of each spin-valley current component. Our study suggests the potential of this scheme in applications, such as spin-valleytronic photo-sensing devices under polarized-photo irradiation.


2008 ◽  
Vol 93 (20) ◽  
pp. 201901 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinbao Guo ◽  
Hui Cao ◽  
Jie Wei ◽  
Duowei Zhang ◽  
Fang Liu ◽  
...  

Nature ◽  
10.1038/17343 ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 397 (6719) ◽  
pp. 506-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Chen ◽  
D. Katsis ◽  
A. W. Schmid ◽  
J. C. Mastrangelo ◽  
T. Tsutsui ◽  
...  

Soft Matter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (39) ◽  
pp. 7802-7808 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Nys ◽  
J. Beeckman ◽  
K. Neyts

A planar liquid crystal (LC) cell is developed in which two photo-alignment layers have been illuminated with respectively a horizontal and a vertical diffraction pattern of interfering left- and right-handed circularly polarized light.


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