Flexoelectric and dielectric phenomena in helicoidal liquid crystals by Outram, B, Benjamin Outram

“…<p>The unique features of flexoelectric and dielectric effects are investigated, and exploited for a variety of functions, in a wide range of helicoidal liquid crystal systems, including non-chiral, cholesteric and blue phases.…”

On-demand polarization controllable liquid crystal laser by Ali, T, Elston, S, Lin, J-D, Morris, S

“…A polarization controllable band-edge liquid crystal (LC) laser configuration is presented that provides on-demand control of the polarization state of the laser using a four electrode in-plane configuration to drive a nematic LC layer. …”

Stretchable liquid-crystal blue-phase gels by Castles, F, Morris, S, Hung, J, Qasim, M, Wright, A, Nosheen, S, Choi, S, Outram, B, Elston, S, Burgess, C, Hill, L, Wilkinson, T, Coles, H

“…Liquid-crystalline polymers are materials of considerable scientific interest and technological value. …”

Stretchable liquid-crystal blue-phase gels by Castles, F, Morris, S, Hung, J, Qasim, M, Wright, A, Nosheen, S, Choi, S, Outram, B, Elston, S, Burgess, C, Hill, L, Wilkinson, T, Coles, H

“…Liquid-crystalline polymers are materials of considerable scientific interest and technological value. …”

Printed liquid crystal optical vortex beam generators by Li, M, Elston, S, He, C, Qiu, X, Castrejón-Pita, A, Morris, S

“…The fabrication process involves drop-ondemand printing of liquid crystal (LC) droplets, which can generate an optical vortex beam in the far-field with the application of a voltage. …”

Flexoelectricity and multi-dimensional structures for liquid crystal photonics by Tartan, C

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Electrically-tunable positioning of topological defects in liquid crystals by Sandford O’Neill, JJ, Salter, PS, Booth, M, Elston, S, Morris, S

“…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 in space and are crucial for explaining the fundamental behaviour and properties of these mesophases. …”

Drop-on-demand electrohydrodynamic printing of nematic liquid crystals by Kamal, W, Li, M, Sykes, T, Castrejon-Pita, AA, Elston, S, Morris, S

“…In this paper, electrohydrodynamic (EHD) printing of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) is demonstrated. Miniscule LC droplets, as small as 1 micron, are generated with the EHD printing system and deposited with high precision onto a glass substrate. …”

Analytic twist angle measurement in liquid crystal cells by Lee, C, Salter, P, Raynes, E, Elston, S

“…Previously we have described a method to measure residual twist angle in homogeneously aligned liquid crystal cells by comparing experimental results with simulated data in an electric field. …”

Flexoelectric measurements of a bent-core nematic liquid crystal by Salter, P, Tschierske, C, Elston, S, Raynes, E

Reconfigurable bowtie antenna using a nematic liquid crystal by Mee, B, Morris, S, Coon, J, Elston, S, Stevens, C, Grant, P, Zheng, Q

“…Design, simulation, fabrication, and measurement of a reconfigurable bowtie antenna operating at 2 GHz and featuring a nematic liquid crystal (LC), with controllable frequency response in a continuous range, are reported in this paper. …”

Electrically-Tunable Positioning of Topological Defects in Liquid Crystals - Dataset by Sandford O'Neill, J, Morris, S, Salter, P, Booth, M, Elston, S

Subjects: “…Liquid crystals…”

Spontaneous and stable uniform lying helix liquid-crystal alignment by Outram, B, Elston, S

Flexoelectric measurements of a bent-core nematic liquid crystal. by Salter, P, Tschierske, C, Elston, S, Raynes, E

“…A large flexoelectric polarization might be expected for a bent-core nematic liquid crystal, due to the combination of molecular shape and transverse dipole component. …”

Electrically tunable printed bifocal liquid crystal microlens arrays by Kamal, W, Lin, J-D, Ali, T, Elston, S, Castrejón-Pita, A, Morris, S

“…In this communication, the fabrication of electrically tunable bifocal liquid crystal (LC) microlenses using drop‐on‐demand inkjet printing is demonstrated. …”

Alignment of the Uniform Lying Helix Structure in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals by Salter, P, Elston, S, Raynes, P, Parry-Jones, L

Small twist angle measurement in homogeneously aligned liquid crystal cells by Lee, C, Elston, S, Raynes, E

“…During the liquid crystal display manufacture a small twist angle is usually generated. …”

Multi-element polychromatic 2-dimensional liquid crystal Dammann gratings by Zhao, Z, Chen, B, Salter, P, Booth, M, O'brien, D, Elston, S, Morris, SM

“…Multi-element and multi-wavelength switchable Dammann gratings are demonstrated in polymerisable nematic liquid crystal (LC) devices fabricated using two-photon polymerisation direct laser writing. …”

Flexoelectric and dielectric in-plane switching behaviour of Grandjean liquid-crystal structures by Outram, B, Elston, S

Laser written stretchable diffractive optic elements in liquid crystal gels by Chen, B, Zhao, Z, Nourshargh, C, He, C, Salter, P, Booth, M, Elston, S, Morris, S

“…Direct laser writing (DLW) in liquid crystals (LCs) enables a range of new stimuli-responsive functionality to be realized. …”