The ability to control light direction with tailored precision via facile means is long‐desired in
science and industry. With the advances in optics, a periodic structure called diffraction …

Since their discovery in 1888, liquid crystals (LCs) have attracted an unceasing research
interest due to their exceptional electro-optical properties that are crucial in the development …

Major research challenges for materials science and technology include the design of tailor-
made materials with deliberately controlled and multifunctional performance attributes. In the …

The fusion of holography to the LC-polymer composites give rise to holographic polymer
dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) technology. The concentration of monomer unit in HPDLC …

This paper presents studies of the influence of various thermal treatments on molecular
dynamics and phase behavior of 3F5BFBiHex antiferroelectric liquid crystal by a …

Optical gratings are created by flexoelectric domains in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal. A
unique feature of this structure is that its wavelength can be controlled by the amplitude of …

The structures of flexodomains, which are similar to optical gratings and can be controlled by
the amplitude of applied voltage and temperature, were verified through polarizing …

This paper presents a nonlinear model for flexoelectric liquid crystal (LC) diffraction gratings
and compares the results from simulations with those obtained from experiments, providing …

The development of Liquid crystals (LCs) based technology is happening at a quick pace to
design various switchable optical devices due to the exceptional electro-optical properties of …

The influence of UV light-induced pitch contraction and dilation on the electroconvection
patterns (ECPs) of a chiral nematic liquid crystal containing a photoresponsive chiral dopant …