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…
Mechanically steered photon upconversion and circularly polarized luminescence in stretchable photonic crystal films
Optimization of upconverted SPC films preparation and UCPL We prepared the BPEA/PtTPBP-loaded upconverted SPC films by using a…
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…
“Everything is Born out of Nothing”: Scientists Release Video of First-Ever Visible ‘Time Crystal’
Physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have announced the creation of the world’s first visible “time crystal”…
Scientists Created the First Time Crystal You Can See With Your Own Eyes
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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…