Bistability of nematic liquid crystals confined in 3D scaffold produced by two-photon polymerization
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Serra, Francesca; Eaton, Shane M.; Borlini, Eleon; Cerbino, Roberto; Buscaglia, Marco; Cerullo, Giulio; Osellame, Roberto; Bellini, Tommaso
- Source
- 2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on. :1-2 May, 2012
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Electric fields
Substrates
Geometry
Liquid crystals
Glass
Indium tin oxide
Polymers
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-8989
We show that nematic liquid crystals confined inside cubic scaffolds made by two-photon polymerization exhibit bistability and large memory effects in response to electric fields, due to topological defects interacting with the solid structure.