Large-scale self-organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystals
Patterning liquid crystals is essential for their applications in photonics, which is commonly achieved by top-down lithographic approaches. Here, Sasaki et al. show a template-free approach that enables fabricating a large number of ordered square microarrays with tunable lattice on millimetre scal...
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| author | Yuji Sasaki V.S.R. Jampani Chiharu Tanaka Nobutaka Sakurai Shin Sakane Khoa V. Le Fumito Araoka Hiroshi Orihara |
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| description | Patterning liquid crystals is essential for their applications in photonics, which is commonly achieved by top-down lithographic approaches. Here, Sasaki et al. show a template-free approach that enables fabricating a large number of ordered square microarrays with tunable lattice on millimetre scale. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1d7e73295eb7404ba43ac6145dd2446c2022-12-21T23:08:59ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232016-11-017111310.1038/ncomms13238Large-scale self-organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystalsYuji Sasaki0V.S.R. Jampani1Chiharu Tanaka2Nobutaka Sakurai3Shin Sakane4Khoa V. Le5Fumito Araoka6Hiroshi Orihara7Division of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido UniversityRIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)Division of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido UniversityDivision of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido UniversityDivision of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido UniversityRIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)Division of Applied Physics, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido UniversityPatterning liquid crystals is essential for their applications in photonics, which is commonly achieved by top-down lithographic approaches. Here, Sasaki et al. show a template-free approach that enables fabricating a large number of ordered square microarrays with tunable lattice on millimetre scale.https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13238 |
| spellingShingle | Yuji Sasaki V.S.R. Jampani Chiharu Tanaka Nobutaka Sakurai Shin Sakane Khoa V. Le Fumito Araoka Hiroshi Orihara Large-scale self-organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystals Nature Communications |
| title | Large-scale self-organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystals |
| title_full | Large-scale self-organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystals |
| title_fullStr | Large-scale self-organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Large-scale self-organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystals |
| title_short | Large-scale self-organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystals |
| title_sort | large scale self organization of reconfigurable topological defect networks in nematic liquid crystals |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13238 |
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