Thermodynamically, liquid crystals (LCs) are an intermediate phase between a crystal and a liquid phase. LCs are broadly classified into three types: nematic, smectic and cholesteric LC phases.

The tunable liquid crystal grating designed by the team, providing an adjustable period and the secondary diffraction of the reconstructed image, enables to simultaneously implement two different ...

Liquid crystals are a key component of the displays used in most laptop computers and the increasingly-popular ... the self-aligning technique could also be used in new types of diffraction gratings.

The diffraction properties and their polarization conversion can be simply explained by considering the characteristics of the above-mentioned fundamental properties of the polarization ...

In an elegant fusion of art and science, researchers at Rice University have achieved a major milestone in nanomaterials engineering by uncovering how boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs)—touted for their ...

New research led by the University of Liverpool in collaboration with the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) ...

Liquid crystals are an intermediate phase between a liquid and a solid body. ... The molecular structure of the new DLCs was studied using spectral, X-ray diffraction, ...

Liquid crystal polarization gratings (LCPGs) are diffractive elements that provide near-100% diffraction for circularly polarized light. When layered with thin polarization-controlling liquid crystal ...

The liquid crystal is widely used nowadays, for example, as a core element of LCD devices. ... This interference signal was detected by 'circular-dichroic resonant x-ray diffraction', ...