Liquid crystals are nowadays widely used in all types of display applications. However their
unique electro-optic properties also make them a suitable material for nondisplay …

Liquid crystals occupy an important niche in nonlinear optics as a result of their unique
physical and optical properties. Besides their broadband birefringence and transparency …

The dispersion of ferroelectric nanomaterials in liquid crystals has recently emerged as a
promising way for the design of advanced and tunable electro-optical materials. The goal of …

Nematic liquid crystals possess large and versatile optical nonlinearities suitable for
photonics applications spanning the femtoseconds to milliseconds time scales, and across a …

It is generally accepted that chemically synthesized nanoparticles lose their ferroelectricity
(spontaneous polarization) as the particles become smaller. In contrast, ball-milled …

We report on the role of ferroelectricity on the physical and electro-optic parameters in
suspensions of nanoparticles in cyclohexane based, fluorinated nematic liquid crystals. The …

The electrical Freedericksz transition characteristics of planar aligned liquid crystal cells
doped with harvested single ferroelectric domain 9 nm nanoparticles of BaTiO_3 have been …

Nanoscale BaTi O 3 particles (≈ 10 nm) prepared by ball-milling a mixture of oleic acid and
heptane have been reported to have an electric polarization several times larger than that …

Nanocolloids comprising harvested ferroelectric LiNbO3 nanoparticles (≈ 25 nm) and
ferroelectric liquid crystals were prepared and investigated. The impact of the amount of …

Despite fascinating experimental results, the influence of defects and elastic strains on the
physical state of nanosized ferroelectrics is still poorly explored theoretically. One of the …