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5 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Landau theory applied to antiferroelectric ordering in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

Manisha Badu, Arjun Ghimire, Milon +6

The polarization and density modulation associated with antiferroelectric ordering is studied experimentally as a function of temperature in two ferroelectric nematic liquid crysta…

cond-mat.soft2026

Electrochromic chiral ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

Md Sakhawat Hossain Himel, James T. Gleeson, Robert J. Twieg +2

Chiral nematic liquid crystals are one-dimensional photonic band-gap materials whose reflection wavelength can be well tuned by temperature, but only limited and irreversible tunin…

cond-mat.soft2025

Low-Power Temperature Control by Chiral Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystal Windows

Md Sakhawat Hossain Himel, Rohan Dharmarathna, Netra Prasad Dhakal +5

Low power consumption is critical for smart windows for temperature control and privacy. The recently discovered ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals exhibit strong coupling of th…

cond-mat.soft2025

Ferroelectric Nematic and Smectic Liquid Crystals with Sub-Molecular Spatial Correlations

Parikshit Guragain, Arjun Ghimire, Manisha Badu +6

A number of highly polar three ring rod-shaped compounds with a terminal thiophene ring have been synthesized and the physical properties of a subset are reported in detail. On coo…

cond-mat.soft2025

Director-layer dynamics in the antiferroelectric smectic-ZA phase of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal

Arjun Ghimire, Bijaya Basnet, Hao Wang +7

A dynamic light scattering study of director-layer fluctuations in the antiferroelectric smectic-ZA phase of the ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal DIO is reported. The dynamics…