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...
Main Authors: | Yuji Sasaki, V.S.R. Jampani, Chiharu Tanaka, Nobutaka Sakurai, Shin Sakane, Khoa V. Le, Fumito Araoka, Hiroshi Orihara |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2016-11-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13238 |
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