4 papers
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…
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 recently observed spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in polar fluids is an unsolved problem, and poses fundamental questions as to how heliconical structures emerge…
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…
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…