Exploration of liquid crystal structures using fluorescent confocal polarizing microscopy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- J. Hoffmann; K. Nowicka; Magdalena Knapkiewicz; Natalia Bielejewska; Wojciech Kuczynski
- Source
- Phase Transitions. 87:1073-1079
- Subject
- Materials science
business.industry
Confocal
Periodic distribution
Fluorescence
law.invention
Optics
Optical microscope
Liquid crystal
law
Schlieren
General Materials Science
business
Instrumentation
Polarizing microscopy
- Language
- ISSN
- 1029-0338
0141-1594
We employed fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy (FCPM) to visualize three-dimensional patterns of the director field in cholesteric and nematic liquid crystals (LCs). Two types of textures were investigated: fingerprint and schlieren, by both FCPM imaging and conventional polarizing optical microscopy (POM). Some kinds of spontaneous periodic distribution of the nematic director were presented.