Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal shells with tangential boundaries develop an azimuthal director field around two antipodal +1 defects at room temperature, confirmed by second-harmonic generation microscopy.
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Experiments on MIO show a second-order SmAF-SmCF transition with mean-field behavior driven by tilt elastic constant softening and diverging dielectric mode amplitude.
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Exotic topological defects and director fields in free-floating spherical ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal shells
Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal shells with tangential boundaries develop an azimuthal director field around two antipodal +1 defects at room temperature, confirmed by second-harmonic generation microscopy.
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On the emergence of molecular tilt in a ferroelectric smectic liquid crystal with broken director-inversion symmetry
Experiments on MIO show a second-order SmAF-SmCF transition with mean-field behavior driven by tilt elastic constant softening and diverging dielectric mode amplitude.