The liquid crystals used in displays nowadays are usually in a nematic phase, i.e. a liquid-like state of almost parallel oriented molecules. However, there is another liquid crystal phase which has a ...

Liquid crystals form a unique state of matter that blends the molecular mobility of liquids with the organised structure of crystalline solids. Their phase transitions, ranging from nematic to smectic ...

Philosophical Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 371, No. 1988, New frontiers in anisotropic fluid—particle composites (13 April 2013), pp. 1-15 (15 pages) Thin liquid ...

The optical properties of liquid crystals have been a subject of study for many years now, with previous papers investigating second harmonic generation in ferroelectric smectic liquid crystals being ...

We study the de Gennes free energy for smectic A liquid crystals over 𝕊²-valued vector fields to understand the chevron (zigzag) pattern formed in the presence of an applied magnetic field. We ...