Freely Suspended Nematic and Smectic Films and Free-Standing Smectic Filaments in the Ferroelectric Nematic Realm

Keith G. Hedlund, Vikina Martinez, Xi Chen +4

We show that stable, freely suspended liquid crystal films can be made from the ferroelectric nematic (${\mathrm{N}}_{\mathrm{F}}$) phase and from the recently discovered polar, lamellar $\math…