scholarly journals Fast-switching phase gratings using in-plane addressed short-pitch polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals

2011 ◽  
Vol 99 (25) ◽  
pp. 253502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Morris ◽  
Damian J. Gardiner ◽  
Flynn Castles ◽  
Philip J. W. Hands ◽  
Timothy D. Wilkinson ◽  
...  
2011 ◽  
Vol 98 (26) ◽  
pp. 263508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian J. Gardiner ◽  
Stephen M. Morris ◽  
Flynn Castles ◽  
Malik M. Qasim ◽  
Wook-Sung Kim ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (7) ◽  
pp. 071102 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Lorenz ◽  
D. J. Gardiner ◽  
S. M. Morris ◽  
F. Castles ◽  
M. M. Qasim ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (66) ◽  
pp. 10109-10112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hitesh Khandelwal ◽  
Gilles H. Timmermans ◽  
Michael G. Debije ◽  
Albertus P. H. J. Schenning

An adjustable broadband reflector based on a polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystal has been fabricated.


2007 ◽  
Vol 91 (12) ◽  
pp. 121118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Chen ◽  
Stephen M. Morris ◽  
Timothy D. Wilkinson ◽  
Harry J. Coles

Soft Matter ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (19) ◽  
pp. 4483-4488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meina Yu ◽  
Xiaochen Zhou ◽  
Jinghua Jiang ◽  
Huai Yang ◽  
Deng-Ke Yang

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 691-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingwu Chen ◽  
Ling Wang ◽  
Yinjie Chen ◽  
Chenyue Li ◽  
Guoyan Hou ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Xuefeng Yang ◽  
Xue Jin ◽  
Tonghan Zhao ◽  
Pengfei Duan

Chiral nematic liquid crystals exhibit excellent performance in obtaining high luminescence dissymmetry factor of circularly polarized luminescence.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawei Zhang ◽  
Lihong Zhang ◽  
Bingzhe Wang ◽  
Guangzhe Piao

Stable lyotropic chiral nematic liquid crystals (N*-LCs) of cellulose nanocrystals (CNs) were prepared via hydrolysis using sulfuric acid. The lyotropic N*-LCs were used as an asymmetric reaction field to synthesize polyaniline (PANI) onto CNs by in situ polymerization. As a primary step, we examined the mesophase transition of the N*-LCs of CNs suspension before and after in situ polymerization of aniline (ANI) by polarizing optical microscopy. The structure of nanocomposites of PANI/CNs was investigated at a microscopic level using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. Influence of the CNs-to-ANI ratio on the morphology of the nanocomposites was also investigated at macroscopic level by scanning electron and transmission electron microscopies. It is found that the weight ratio of CNs to aniline in the suspension significantly influenced the size of the PANI particles and interaction between CNs and PANI. Moreover, electrical properties of the obtained PANI/CNs films were studied using standard four-probe technique. It is expected that the lyotropic N*-LCs of CNs might be available for an asymmetric reaction field to produce novel composites of conjugated materials.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Kwaśny ◽  
Urszula A. Laudyn ◽  
Katarzyna A. Rutkowska ◽  
Mirosław A. Karpierz

In this work, we study nematicons propagation at the disclination lines in a wedge-shaped planarly oriented sample. Using optimal beam parameters for light self-trapping and varying the input beam position and direction of the wave vector k with respect to the z-axis, we gain insight in the nematicons propagation in the highly disturbed area around two different types of disclination lines in chiral nematic.


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