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Observation of a uniaxial ferroelectric smectic A phase
Xi Chen, Vikina Martinez, Pierre Nacke +12
We report the smectic , a new liquid crystal phase of the ferroelectric nematic realm. The smectic is a phase of small polar, rod-shaped molecules which form two-dimensi…
Ideal Mixing of Paraelectric and Ferroelectric Nematic Phases in Liquid Crystals of Distinct Molecular Species
Xi Chen, Zhecong Zhu, Mitchell J. Magrini +6
The organic mesogens RM734 and DIO are members of separate molecular families featuring distinct molecular structures. These families, at the present time, are the only ones known…
Electrostatics in a crooked nanochannel in a newly developed curvilinear coordinate system
Xi Chen, Ke Xiao, Rui Ma +2
Both biological and artificial nanochannels in crooked shape exhibit unusual transportational characteristics, bringing about a challenge to the traditional theoretical analysis of…
Polar In-Plane Surface Orientation of a Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystal: Polar Monodomains and Twisted State Electro-Optics
Xi Chen, Eva Korblova, Matthew A. Glaser +3
We show that surface interactions can vectorially structure the three-dimensional polariza-tion field of a ferroelectric fluid. The contact between a ferroelectric nematic liquid c…
First-Principles Experimental Demonstration of Ferroelectricity in a Thermotropic Nematic Liquid Crystal: Spontaneous Polar Domains and Striking Electro-Optics
Xi Chen, Eva Korblova, Dengpan Dong +8
We report the experimental determination of the structure and response to applied electric field of the lower-temperature nematic phase of the previously reported calamitic compoun…
Formation of a fast "lane" for positional transition in a microparticle-suspended nematic liquid crystal cell
Ke Xiao, Xi Chen, Xuezheng Cao +1
In this paper, based on the numerical calculation of total energy utilizing the Green's function method, we found that the external electric field applied to a microparticle-suspen…