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Optically generated adaptive localized structures in confined chiral liquid crystals doped with fullerene
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Trushkevych, Oksana, Ackerman, P., Crossland, W. A. and Smalyukh, I. I. (2010) Optically generated adaptive localized structures in confined chiral liquid crystals doped with fullerene. Applied Physics Letters, 97 (20). 201906. doi:10.1063/1.3518477
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3518477
Abstract
We report the facile optical creation of switchable localized structures in chiral liquid crystals doped with fullerene. In a cholesteric cell unwound by vertical boundary conditions, the initially dispersed fullerenes are deposited from the bulk to the surface of confining glass plates by low-intensity illumination. This alters the surface boundary conditions and allows for the creation of localized particlelike structures with twist-bound defects (dubbed Torons) that are controlled by electric fields and arranged into patterns of interest for photonic and electro-optic applications.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QC Physics Q Science > QD Chemistry |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Physics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Liquid crystals, Fullerenes, Photonics, Electrooptics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Applied Physics Letters | ||||||
| Publisher: | AIP | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0003-6951 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 18 November 2010 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 97 | ||||||
| Number: | 20 | ||||||
| Article Number: | 201906 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1063/1.3518477 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
| Funder: | University of Colorado. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF) | ||||||
| Grant number: | DMR-0820579, DMR-0844115, and DMR-0847782 (NSF) |
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