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Exotic topological defects and director fields in free-floating spherical ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal shells
Churchill B. Agoni, Ema Pilih, Luka Cmok +5
Ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid crystals exhibit polar symmetry and large polarization, giving rise to phenomena absent in conventional apolar nematics. We investigate NF liquid…
Elasticity-Driven Periodic Polarization Patterns in Confined Chiral Ferroelectric Nematic Fluid
Anej Sterle, Peter Medle-Rupnik, Luka Cmok +9
Ferroelectric nematic phases are a new class of polar fluids in which spontaneous polarization is directly coupled to the orientational order, providing unique opportunities for cr…
Flexoelectricity-driven softening of bend elasticity leads to spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in a polar fluid
Aitor Erkoreka, Josu Martinez-Perdiguero, Luka Cmok +6
The origin of the recently observed spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in polar fluids composed of achiral molecules is an unsolved problem, raising fundamental questions about h…
Ferroelectric Fluids for Nonlinear Photonics: Evaluation of Temperature Dependence of Second-Order Susceptibilities
Matija Lovšin, Luka Cmok, Calum J. Gibb +5
Ferroelectric nematic fluids are promising materials for tunable nonlinear photonics, with applications ranging from second harmonic generation to sources of entangled photons. How…
Optical manipulation of sessile droplets of nematic liquid crystalline materials on the surface of a photovoltaic crystal
R. Karapinar, L. Cmok, X. Zhang +1
We investigated the effects of laser irradiation on sessile droplets of three well-known liquid crystalline 12 materials (5CB, 8CB, E7) deposited on the surface of an iron-doped li…
Light-induced dynamics of liquid-crystalline droplets on the surface of iron-doped lithium niobate crystals
Luka Cmok, Nerea Sebastián, Alenka Mertelj +3
We investigated the effect of a photovoltaic field generated on the surface of iron-doped lithium niobate crystals on droplets of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystalline and a s…
Shape programming lines of concentrated Gaussian curvature
D. Duffy, L. Cmok, J. S. Biggins +7
Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) can undergo large reversible contractions along their nematic director upon heating or illumination. A spatially patterned director within a flat L…
Splay nematic phase
Alenka Mertelj, Luka Cmok, Nerea Sebastián +5
Different liquid crystalline phases with long-range orientational but not positional order, so-called nematic phases, are scarce. It rarely occurs that a new nematic phase is disco…