Distant optical detection of small rotations and displacements by means of chiral liquid crystals

The paper describes novel chiral viscoelastic liquid crystalline mixtures and their application for the detection of small rotational displacements of two plates confining cholesteric liquid crystals (CLC). The mixtures are characterized by extremely high viscosities and stability of the selective r...

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Main Authors: Petr V. Shibaev, Andrey Iljin, Juliana Troisi, Kathryn Reddy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2014-01-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4862673