Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and photonic devices play a pivotal role to augmented reality
(AR) and virtual reality (VR). The recently emerging high-dynamic-range (HDR) mini-LED …

Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Self-assembled architectures of soft matter have fascinated scientists for centuries due to
their unique physical properties originated from controllable orientational and/or positional …

Planar and ultrathin liquid crystal (LC) polarization optical elements have found promising
applications in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and photonic devices. In this …

Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are revolutionizing the ways we perceive and
interact with various types of digital information. These near-eye displays have attracted …

Conventional lens technologies face great challenges in applications requiring large
apertures and small f‐numbers, while a liquid crystal (LC) lens based on geometric phase is …

Three-dimensional (3D) displays have been vastly investigated in the past few decades.
Recent development of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) has further …

Optical beam steering (BS) has multiple applications in fields like target seeking and
tracking, optical tweezers, billboard displays and many others. In this work, a two …

In the recent decades, the investigations on photoresponsive molecular systems with
multiple azoarenes are quite popular in diverse perspectives ranging from fundamental …

We have fabricated patterned fibers using a small-molecular-weight liquid crystal (LC) and
reactive mesogens (RMs) under controlled electric fields in which defect arrays are …