Recently, the physical properties of spatially confined nematic liquid crystals 10,11,12 and nematic elastomers (ref. 13 and references therein, and ref. 14) have been intensively studied to ...

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Defects in liquid crystals play a central role in determining their structural and dynamic properties, whilst it is challenging to characterize the defects at a molecule level. Here, Gimet al ...

The devices are filtered for minimal curvature and have the following parameters: Resolution: 1280x720 pixels Bit Depth: 8-bit greyscale Input frame addressing: 60 Hz (DVI port addressing) Pixel Size: ...

More than 100 years after a pair of imaginative physicists first proposed a new phase of liquid crystal, scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have managed to produce it and have been ...

A ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal is more organized. Within specific patches or “domains”, all of its molecules point in the same direction. This phenomenon is known as polar ordering, and its ...

Researchers at CU Boulder’s Soft Materials Research Center (SMRC) have discovered an elusive phase of matter, first proposed more than 100 years ago and sought after ever since. The team describes the ...

“When it comes to nematic liquid crystals, the kind in most displays, we only have a few that have been demonstrated so far.” Top: A traditional, "nematic" liquid crystal seen under the microscope; ...

Clark agrees, saying that the discovery of a liquid crystal could lead to new technological innovations, from new types of display screens to reimagined computer memory. "There are 40,000 research ...

Liquid crystal is widely used nowadays, for example, as a core element of LCD devices. The magnetic analog of this kind of material is dubbed the "spin-nematic phase," where spin moments play the ...

Nematic Liquid Crystal, Berreman’s Model, Azimuthal Anchoring Energy, Finite Element Method, Surface Relief Grating. Introduction. In order to extend the battery lifetime of portable type electric ...

This preferred order, called the nematic director, can be easily influenced by the application of weak electrical, magnetic or optical fields. In a twisted-nematic LCD, nematic liquid crystal is ...