Electrically-tunable positioning of topological defects in liquid crystals

Topological defects are a consequence of broken symmetry in ordered systems and are important for understanding a wide variety of phenomena in physics. In liquid crystals (LCs), defects exist as points of discontinuous order in the vector field that describes the average orientation of the molecules...

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Main Authors: Sandford O’Neill, JJ, Salter, PS, Booth, M, Elston, S, Morris, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Nature Research 2020