Elucidating the fine details of cholesteric liquid crystal shell reflection patterns
- Author(s)
- Yong Geng, JungHyun Noh, Irena Drevensek-Olenik, Romano Rupp, Jan Lagerwall
- Abstract
Clusters of planar-aligned short-pitch cholesteric liquid crystal spheres generate dynamic colourful patterns due to multiple selective reflections from the radially oriented cholesteric helices in neighbour shells at varying distances. These photonic communication patterns were widely investigated for the cases of both droplets and shells, demonstrating not only intriguing optical phenomena but also potential for applications as new optical elements for photonics, sensing or security pattern generation. However, the optics of these clusters is truly complex and until now only the strongest and most fundamental reflections have been analysed and explained. In this report, we elucidate the origin of a number of more subtle reflections and we explain the extension in space of various spots as well as their internal colour variations.
- Organisation(s)
- Physics of Functional Materials
- External organisation(s)
- University of Luxembourg, University of Ljubljana, Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS)
- Journal
- Liquid Crystals
- Volume
- 44
- Pages
- 1948-1959
- No. of pages
- 12
- ISSN
- 0267-8292
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2017.1363916
- Publication date
- 2017
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105113 Crystallography, 103018 Materials physics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Condensed Matter Physics, Chemistry(all), Materials Science(all)
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/elucidating-the-fine-details-of-cholesteric-liquid-crystal-shell-reflection-patterns(5e481f6e-e899-4f92-aa4f-dfd8853ecd8e).html