The ability to control light direction with tailored precision via facile means is long‐desired in
science and industry. With the advances in optics, a periodic structure called diffraction …

Electric field-induced patterns in liquid crystals have been observed and studied for about
50 years. During this time, a great variety of structures, detected under different conditions …

So as to investigate structure–activity relationships in hydrogen bonded liquid crystals, a
new short-chained (7 carbon atoms) fluorinated hydrogen-bonded liquid crystal 4-heptyloxy …

Optical gratings are created by flexoelectric domains in a bent-core nematic liquid crystal. A
unique feature of this structure is that its wavelength can be controlled by the amplitude of …

This work addresses the achievement of efficient control of laser light transmission through
stationary microperiodic parallel stripe textures formed in films of nematic liquid crystals …

A new photoresponsive bent‐core nematic (BCN) material, which exhibits flexoelectric
domains (FDs) driven by electric field, is reported. Unexpectedly, it is found that the …

Reconfigurable optical diffraction grating is of great importance for monochromator,
spectrometer, optical fiber telecommunication, laser protection, antenna and more. We …

A stable lattice of topological defects occurring at the electric reorientation of a nematic fluid
is studied by quantitative polarimetry and laser diffraction. Generation of optical vortices by …

Frequency-induced instability is widely present in nematic liquid crystals (LCs), which poses
a problem in improving liquid-crystal-based phase-shift devices driven by alternating …

The structures of flexodomains, which are similar to optical gratings and can be controlled by
the amplitude of applied voltage and temperature, were verified through polarizing …