Fusion and fission of particle-like chiral nematic vortex knots
Materials and sample preparation The chiral LC mixture used was prepared from 4-cyano-4′-pentylbiphenyl (5CB, EM Chemicals), doped with…
Monopole-mediated light control of half skyrmion topology in nematic liquid crystals
Creation of topological monopole-antimonopole pairs in half skyrmions Topological defects, which are a necessary result of broken continuous…
GHz-rate optical phase shift in light-matter interaction-engineered, silicon-ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals
Shekhar, S. et al. Roadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics. Nat. Commun. 15, 1–15 (2024). Article Google…
Space-time crystals from particle-like topological solitons
Chaikin, P. M. & Lubensky, T. C. Principles of Condensed Matter Physics (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000). Yeh, P.…
Maximized circularly polarized luminescence from metal clusters accelerates chiral photopolymerization
Chiroptical properties of discrete (S/R)-Ag6 clusters (stage I) The construction of atomically precise metal clusters with CPL by…