Second harmonic light scattering induced by defects in the twist-bend nematic phase of liquid crystal dimers

Shokir A. Pardaev, S. M. Shamid, M. G. Tamba +8

The nematic twist-bend (${\mathrm{N}}_{\mathrm{TB}}$) phase, exhibited by certain thermotropic liquid crystalline (LC) dimers, represents a new orientationally ordered mesophase -- the first…