Dr. Stephen Morris: Templated Chiral Liquid Crystalline Structures for Lasers and Elastomers
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Templated Chiral Liquid Crystalline Structures for Lasers and Elastomers
Dr. Stephen Morris, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
In this presentation, we focus on the developments of laser devices based upon chiral liquid crystalline structures and explore methodologies for wavelength tuning and multi-coloured arrays. Moreover, we show how the chiral nematic and blues phases may be templated using polymer scaffolds thereby leading to extraordinarily wide temperature ranges in the latter case as well as potentially new electro-optic mechanisms. Finally, we describe how these materials can be used to produce elastomers based upon blue phase.
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