Spontaneous helix formation in non-chiral bent-core liquid crystals with fast linear electro-optic effect
Liquid crystals that consist of rod-like molecules currently dominate the materials used in industry for display and photonic applications. Here, the authors demonstrate electro-optic grey-scale switching based on the spontaneous formation of a short-pitch helix in a tilted smectic phase of achiral...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11369 |