Liquid crystal waveguides and photonic devices are innovative technologies that utilize the unique properties of liquid crystals to manipulate light. These devices are increasingly important in ...

A research team has discovered that achiral hard banana-shaped particles can spontaneously form exotic structures like ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers at University of Tsukuba have successfully achieved ...

The same cannot be said of liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS), even though this technology is used extensively in many industries that require high-quality microdisplays. Most LCOS devices comprise ...

Liquid crystal nanoparticles (LCNPs ... LCNPs can be used as building blocks for advanced display and photonic devices. Their orientational order and optical anisotropy enable the fabrication of ...

By using optically active liquid crystals as reaction sites, researchers have successfully achieved the living polymerization of polymers with aligned helical structures. In this process, optically ...

Self-organization in liquid crystals could revolutionize optical devices, enabling precise control ... Abrikosov clusters in chiral liquid crystal droplets, Reports on Progress in Physics (2024).

When introduced into a nematic liquid crystal, these particles induce three-dimensional ... applications of colloids and liquid crystals that range from topological memory devices, to new types of ...

This change in orientation affects the light's ability to pass through the liquid crystal layer, enabling the display to produce images. An LCD consists of several layers, including two polarizing ...

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