scholarly journals Dielectric dispersion on the Kerr constant of blue phase liquid crystals

2011 ◽  
Vol 99 (18) ◽  
pp. 181126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Yuan Chen ◽  
Jie Sun ◽  
Shin-Tson Wu ◽  
Shih-Hsien Liu ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Liu ◽  
Wenzhe Liu ◽  
Bo Guan ◽  
Bo Wang ◽  
Lei Shi ◽  
...  

AbstractIn a narrow temperature window in going from the isotropic to highly chiral orders, cholesteric liquid crystals exhibit so-called blue phases, consisting of different morphologies of long, space-filling double twisted cylinders. Those of cubic spatial symmetry have attracted considerable attention in recent years as templates for soft photonic materials. The latter often requires the creation of monodomains of predefined orientation and size, but their engineering is complicated by a lack of comprehensive understanding of how blue phases nucleate and transform into each other at a submicrometer length scale. In this work, we accomplish this by intercepting nucleation processes at intermediate stages with fast cross-linking of a stabilizing polymer matrix. We reveal using transmission electron microscopy, synchrotron small-angle X-ray diffraction, and angle-resolved microspectroscopy that the grid of double-twisted cylinders undergoes highly coordinated, diffusionless transformations. In light of our findings, the implementation of several applications is discussed, such as temperature-switchable QR codes, micro-area lasing, and fabrication of blue phase liquid crystals with large domain sizes.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Ying Shi ◽  
WanLi He ◽  
YaQian Zhang ◽  
YongFeng Cui ◽  
Lei Zhang ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iam-Choon Khoo ◽  
Chun-Wei Chen ◽  
Tsung-Hsien Lin

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (18) ◽  
pp. 185103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramesh Manda ◽  
Srinivas Pagidi ◽  
Surjya Sarathi Bhattacharya ◽  
Hyesun Yoo ◽  
Arun Kumar T ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 752-758
Author(s):  
李青 LI Qing ◽  
严静 YAN Jing ◽  
崔勇扬 CUI Yong-yang

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 576-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
李伟欢 LI Wei-huan ◽  
孙骁扬 SUN Xiao-yang ◽  
李泳锐 LEE Yung-jui ◽  
罗长诚 LO Chang-cheng ◽  
连水池 Lien Alan ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 22015-22020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Wei Du ◽  
De-Shan Hou ◽  
Xuan Li ◽  
Dong-Peng Sun ◽  
Jiong-Fang Lan ◽  
...  

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