Subnanowatt Opto-Molecular Generation of Localized Defects in Chiral Liquid Crystals

Multiple chiral topological states in liquid crystals from unstructured light beams

(2014) Charles Loussert et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Conversion of light into macroscopic helical motion

(2014) Supitchaya Iamsaard et al.   Nature Chemistry

Photodynamic Chiral Molecular Switches with Thermal Stability: From Reflection Wavelength Tuning to Handedness Inversion of Self-Organized Helical Superstructures

(2013) Yannian Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Optical generation, templating, and polymerization of three-dimensional arrays of liquid-crystal defects decorated by plasmonic nanoparticles

(2013) Julian S. Evans et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Manipulating the Orbital Angular Momentum of Light at the Micron Scale with Nematic Disclinations in a Liquid Crystal Film

(2013) Charles Loussert et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Generating the Hopf Fibration Experimentally in Nematic Liquid Crystals

(2013) Bryan Gin-ge Chen et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Arbitrary vortex arrays realized from optical winding of frustrated chiral liquid crystals

(2013) Bin Yang et al.   Journal of Optics

Light-Driven Chiral Molecular Switches or Motors in Liquid Crystals

(2012) Yan Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Functional Organic Materials Based on Polymerized Liquid-Crystal Monomers: Supramolecular Hydrogen-Bonded Systems

(2012) Dirk J. Broer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Time-programmed helix inversion in phototunable liquid crystals

(2012) Sarah J. Aßhoff et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Photoinduced helical inversion in cholesteric liquid crystal cells with homeotropic anchoring

(2012) Igor Gvozdovskyy et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Optically generated reconfigurable photonic structures of elastic quasiparticles in frustrated cholesteric liquid crystals

(2012) Ivan I. Smalyukh et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Vortex Induction via Anisotropy Stabilized Light-Matter Interaction

(2012) R. Barboza et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Tunable Optical Vortex Arrays from a Single Nematic Topological Defect

(2012) Etienne Brasselet   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Laser-directed hierarchical assembly of liquid crystal defects and control of optical phase singularities

(2012) Paul J. Ackerman et al.   Scientific Reports

Directing Dynamic Control of Red, Green, and Blue Reflection Enabled by a Light-Driven Self-Organized Helical Superstructure

(2011) Quan Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Widely Tunable, Photoinvertible Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

(2011) Timothy J. White et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Control of Rotor Function in Light-Driven Molecular Motors

(2011) Anouk S. Lubbe et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Electrically controlled topological defects in liquid crystals as tunable spin-orbit encoders for photons

(2011) Etienne Brasselet et al.   OPTICS LETTERS

Optically generated adaptive localized structures in confined chiral liquid crystals doped with fullerene

(2010) O. Trushkevych et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Printed artificial cilia from liquid-crystal network actuators modularly driven by light

(2009) Casper L. van Oosten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Three-dimensional structure and multistable optical switching of triple-twisted particle-like excitations in anisotropic fluids

(2009) Ivan I. Smalyukh et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Optical Vortices from Liquid Crystal Droplets

(2009) Etienne Brasselet et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS