Search Results - "Gardiner, Damian J."

Spontaneous induction of the uniform lying helix alignment in bimesogenic liquid crystals for the flexoelectro-optic effect by Gardiner, Damian J., Morris, Stephen M., Hands, Philip J. W., Castles, Flynn, Qasim, Malik M., Kim, Wook-Sung, Seok Choi, Su, Wilkinson, Timothy D., Coles, Harry J.

“…Using in-plane electric fields, the electrical induction of the uniform lying helix (ULH) alignment in chiral nematic liquid crystals is reported. This process…”
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Paintable band-edge liquid crystal lasers by Gardiner, Damian J, Morris, Stephen M, Hands, Philip J W, Mowatt, Carrie, Rutledge, Rupert, Wilkinson, Timothy D, Coles, Harry J

“…In this paper we demonstrate photonic band-edge laser emission from emulsion-based polymer dispersed liquid crystals. The lasing medium consists of dye-doped…”
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Flexoelectric and elastic coefficients of odd and even homologous bimesogens by Atkinson, Katie L, Morris, Stephen M, Castles, Flynn, Qasim, Malik M, Gardiner, Damian J, Coles, Harry J

“…It is known that bimesogenic liquid crystals exhibit a marked "odd-even" effect in the flexoelastic ratio (the effective flexoelectric coefficient to the…”
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Electrically switchable random to photonic band-edge laser emission in chiral nematic liquid crystals by Morris, Stephen M., Gardiner, Damian J., Hands, Philip J. W., Qasim, Malik M., Wilkinson, Timothy D., White, Ian H., Coles, Harry J.

“…Using a chiral nematic liquid crystal with a negative dielectric anisotropy, it is possible to switch between band-edge laser emission and random laser…”
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Polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals for fast switching and high contrast electro-optic devices by Gardiner, Damian J., Morris, Stephen M., Castles, Flynn, Qasim, Malik M., Kim, Wook-Sung, Choi, Su Seok, Park, Hyun-Jin, Chung, In-Jae, Coles, Harry J.

“…A fast switching electro-optic device, based upon the in-plane addressing of very short pitch polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals, is presented…”
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Increasing the flexoelastic ratio of liquid crystals using highly fluorinated ester-linked bimesogens by Atkinson, Katie L, Morris, Stephen M, Qasim, Malik M, Castles, Flynn, Gardiner, Damian J, Hands, Philip J W, Choi, Su Seok, Kim, Wook-Sung, Coles, Harry J

“…We present experimental results on the bulk flexoelectric coefficients e and effective elastic coefficients K of non-symmetric bimesogenic liquid crystals when…”
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Liquid crystalline chromophores for photonic band-edge laser devices by Morris, Stephen M., Qasim, Malik M., Gardiner, Damian J., Hands, Philip J.W., Castles, Flynn, Tu, Gouli, Huck, Wilhelm T.S., Friend, Richard H., Coles, Harry J.

“…► Liquid crystalline chromophores have been synthesized for photonic band-edge laser devices. ► These are bimesogenic compounds consisting of the repeating…”
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Improving the stability of organosiloxane smectic A liquid crystal random lasers using redox dopants by Khan, Ammar A., Morris, Stephen M., Gardiner, Damian J., Qasim, Malik M., Wilkinson, Timothy D., Coles, Harry J.

“…•Light-scattering devices based on binary mixtures of smectic A and nematic LC.•Induced clear state requires less applied electric filed for high dielectric…”
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Fast-switching phase gratings using in-plane addressed short-pitch polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals by Morris, Stephen M., Gardiner, Damian J., Castles, Flynn, Hands, Philip J. W., Wilkinson, Timothy D., Coles, Harry J.

“…We demonstrate a fast-switching (sub-millisecond) phase grating based upon a polymer stabilized short-pitch chiral nematic liquid crystal that is electrically…”
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Ultra-fast-switching flexoelectric liquid-crystal display with high contrast by Castles, Flynn, Morris, Stephen M., Gardiner, Damian J., Malik, Qasim M., Coles, Harry J.

“…— The flexoelectro‐optic effect provides a fast‐switching mechanism (0.01–0.1 msec), suitable for use in field‐sequential‐color full‐motion‐video displays. An…”
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A nano-patterned photonic crystal laser with a dye-doped liquid crystal by Ko, Doo-Hyun, Morris, Stephen M., Lorenz, Alexander, Castles, Flynn, Butt, Haider, Gardiner, Damian J., Qasim, Malik M., Wallikewitz, Bodo, Hands, Philip J. W., Wilkinson, Timothy D., Amaratunga, Gehan A. J., Coles, Harry J., Friend, Richard H.

“…Covering a nano-patterned titanium dioxide photonic crystal (PC) within a well-oriented film of dye-doped liquid crystal (LC), a distributed feedback laser is…”
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