Search Results - "Rudquist, P"

Photon upconversion with directed emission by Börjesson, K., Rudquist, P., Gray, V., Moth-Poulsen, K.

“…Photon upconversion has the potential to increase the efficiency of single bandgap solar cells beyond the Shockley Queisser limit. Efficient light management…”
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Field alignment of bent-core smectic liquid crystals for analog optical phase modulation by Shen, Y., Goodhew, L., Shao, R., Moran, M., Korblova, E., Walba, D. M., Clark, N. A., Maclennan, J. E., Rudquist, P.

“…A general method for aligning bent-core smectic liquid crystal materials is described. Alternating electric fields between interdigitated electrodes patterned…”
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Electro-optic characteristics of de Vries tilted smectic liquid crystals: Analog behavior in the smectic A and smectic C phases by Clark, N. A., Bellini, T., Shao, R.-F., Coleman, D., Bardon, S., Link, D. R., Maclennan, J. E., Chen, X.-H., Wand, M. D., Walba, D. M., Rudquist, P., Lagerwall, S. T.

“…Chiral smectic A liquid crystal materials of the de Vries type (with molecules tilted relative to the layer normal) exhibit analog field-induced…”
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Simple method for accurate measurements of the cholesteric pitch using a "stripe-wedge" Grandjean-Cano cell by Podolskyy, D., Banji, O., Rudquist, P.

“…The classical method for measuring the inherent periodicity, or "pitch", in the order parameter in a cholesteric liquid crystal implies using a wedge cell with…”
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Unique Electro‐Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals Designed for Molecular Optics by Lagerwall, S. T., Dahlgren, A., Jägemalm, P., Rudquist, P., D’havé, K., Pauwels, H., Dabrowski, R., Drzewinski, W.

“…Antiferroelectric order has been known to exist in liquid crystals since more than a decade and is now an intensely studied field of research. The great…”
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V -shaped switching ferroelectric liquid crystal structure stabilized by dielectric surface layers by Hammarquist, A, D'Havé, K, Matuszczyk, M, Clark, N A, Maclennan, J E, Rudquist, P

“…The " V -shaped switching" mode in high polarization ferroelectric liquid crystals was studied with the aim of stabilizing the monostable bookshelf structure…”
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Possible model of an antiferroelectric twist grain boundary phase by Meier, J G, Nobili, M, Carlsson, T, Rudquist, P, Petrenko, A S, Goodby, J W, Brunet, M, Lagerwall, S T

“…Using x-ray and optical methods we have probed the structural organization of an antiferroelectric twist grain boundary phase (TGBC(a)) lying between the…”
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Realization of a Four-Electrode Liquid Crystal Device With Full In-Plane Director Rotation by Desimpel, C., Beeckman, J., Neyts, K., Verstuyft, S., Van Thourhout, D., D'have, K., Rudquist, P.

“…A liquid crystal device with micrometer-scale hexagonal electrodes has been fabricated and characterized. By using weak anchoring at the liquid crystal…”
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Volume-stabilized ULH structure for the flexoelectro-optic effect and the phase-shift effect in cholesterics by RUDQUIST, P., KOMITOV, L., LAGERWALL, S. T.

“…Flexoelectric coupling gives rise to a linear electro-optic response in cholesterics (flexoelectrooptic effect) with a uniformly lying helix (ULH) structure…”
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A New Application of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals: Fast Electrooptic Helmet Visors for Pulsed Welding Applications by Caillaud, B., Dupont, L., Gautier, P., de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, J.-L., Rudquist, P., Engström, D., Jägemalm, P., Lagerwall, S. T.

“…The use of automatically operating shutters for welding is since long a recognized application of liquid crystals with an important market. With the advent and…”
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On the flexoelectric effect in nematics by RUDQUIST, P., LAGERWALL, S. T.

“…Flexoelectricity is a general and fundamental phenomenon in liquid crystals. It describes the linear coupling between an applied electric field and gradients…”
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Safe and Ergonomic Welding Masks by Fast Liquid Crystals by Caillaud, B., Dupont, L., Gautier, P., de la Tocnaye, JL de Bougrenet, Rudquist, P., Jägemalm, P., Lagerwall, S. T.

“…Recent developments in welding technology, in particular the high intensity pulsed welding arc, have sharpened the requirements on speed and adjustable…”
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The flexoelectro-optic effect in cholesterics by RUDQUIST, P., CARLSSON, T., KOMITOV, L., LAGERWALL, S. T.

“…The flexoelectro-optic effect in short-pitch cholesterics [1] is analysed in terms of applied electric field strengths and material parameters such as the two…”
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Molecular arrangement in a chiral smectic liquid crystal cell studied by polarized infrared spectroscopy by Sigarev, A. A., Vij, J. K., Panarin, Yu. P., Rudquist, P., Lagerwall, S. T., Heppke, G.

“…The structure of the chiral smectic C phase (SmC*) of the mesogen MHP10CBC in a homogeneously aligned thin cell, that exhibits V-shaped-like switching in a…”
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Voltage‐Controlled Switching of Strong Light–Matter Interactions using Liquid Crystals by Hertzog, Manuel, Rudquist, Per, Hutchison, James A., George, Jino, Ebbesen, Thomas W., Börjesson, Karl

“…We experimentally demonstrate a fine control over the coupling strength of vibrational light–matter hybrid states by controlling the orientation of a nematic…”
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The antiferroelectric TGB phase: textures, field-induced effects and microscopic model by Meier, J. G., Rudquist, P., Petrenko, A. S., Goodby, J. W., Lagerwall, S. T.

“…By studying the optical textures and the field-induced effects of the recently discovered TGBC A phase we have developed a qualitative model of the microscopic…”
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Polar electro-optic switching in droplets of an achiral nematic liquid crystal by RUDQUIST, P., KORBLOVA, E., WALBA, D. M., SHAO, R., CLARK, N. A., MACLENNAN, J. E.

“…A polar electro-optic response is observed in droplets of an achiral nematic liquid crystal in coexistence with the isotropic phase. Between crossed polarizers…”
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Tilt plane orientation in antiferroelectric liquid crystal cells and the origin of the pretransitional effect by Rudquist, P, Lagerwall, J P F, Meier, J G, D'havé, K, Lagerwall, S T

“…The optic, electro-optic, and dielectric properties of antiferroelectric liquid crystals (AFLCs) are analyzed and discussed in terms of the local tilt plane…”
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Second-harmonic generation in a novel crosslinked pyroelectric liquid crystal polymer (PLCP) by HERMANN, D. S., RUDQUIST, P., LAGERWALL, S. T., KOMITOV, L., STEBLER, B., LINDGREN, M., TROLLSAS, M., SAHLEN, F., HULT, A., GEDDE, U. W., ORRENIUS, C., NORIN, T.

“…We report second-harmonic generation in samples with a pyroelectric liquid crystal polymer (PLCP) prepared from the ferroelectric liquid crystalline acrylate…”
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Topological Ferroelectric Bistability in a Polarization-Modulated Orthogonal Smectic Liquid Crystal by Zhu, Chenhui, Shao, Renfan, Reddy, R. Amaranatha, Chen, Dong, Shen, Yongqiang, Gong, Tao, Glaser, Matthew A, Korblova, Eva, Rudquist, Per, Maclennan, Joseph E, Walba, David M, Clark, Noel A

“…We report a bent-core liquid crystal (LC) compound exhibiting two fluid smectic phases in which two-dimensional, polar, orthorhombic layers order into…”
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