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View article: Microscale structural fluctuations at the melting phase transition of strongly confined achiral and chiral nematics
Microscale structural fluctuations at the melting phase transition of strongly confined achiral and chiral nematics Open
We report on direct microscopic observations of thermally driven fluctuating dynamics in a narrow temperature region between the isotropic and low-temperature phases in achiral, chiral, and strongly chiral (blue phase) liquid crystal mater…
View article: Direct laser-written waveguides for integrated liquid crystal micro-photonics
Direct laser-written waveguides for integrated liquid crystal micro-photonics Open
We demonstrate that Direct Laser Writing (DLW) can be used to print low loss planar polymer waveguides on glass, thus promising a novel soft matter platform for polymer all-optic micro-photonics. We printed straight waveguides with various…
View article: Skyrmions in blue phases of chiral liquid crystals
Skyrmions in blue phases of chiral liquid crystals Open
Using high-resolution microscope observations, we show that both the static cubic (BPI) and the dynamic amorphous (BPIII) blue phases consist of fractional skyrmion filaments that transform into the same quasi two-dimensional structure of …
View article: Blue Phase III: Topological Fluid of Skyrmions
Blue Phase III: Topological Fluid of Skyrmions Open
Skyrmions are topologically protected, vortexlike formations of a field that cannot be removed by any smooth transformation and emerge in a range of fundamentally different, either quantum or classical systems, from spin textures to chiral…