Cholesteric liquid crystals exhibit a periodic helical structure that partially reflects light with
wavelengths comparable to the period of the structure, thus performing as a one …

In this study, we propose a simpler method to fabricate single-layer polymer cholesteric films
with reflective bandwidth over 1500 nm instead of the previous multilayer films. We add …

The colloidal 2D materials based on graphene and its modifications are of great interest
when it comes to forming LC phases. These LC phases allow controlling the orientational …

In reflective displays, visible light with a wavelength in the range of about 400–700 nm could
be either reflected, scattered, or absorbed by the displaying materials in pixels. When light …

The exceptional band-edge lasing from dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals (DD-CLCs),
which can be easily fabricated by blending chiral molecules with nematic liquid crystals …

This work investigates the emission chirality of a chiral distributed Bragg reflector (DBR)
laser, which is composed by incorporating an isotropic medium containing laser dye …

Orientation transitions in a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer with negative dielectric
anisotropy, under the influence of a non-uniform spatially periodic electric field created using …

Cell-surface proteins (CSPs) have been employed extensively in cancer research as
diagnostic and prognostic markers as well as targets for the creation of anticancer drugs …

The optical spectra of the cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layers under conditions of hybrid
anchoring show a short-wave shift under a pulsed electric field. This behavior is anomalous …

This Special Issue, entitled “Liquid Crystals 2020”, is a collection of ten original research
papers, including two feature papers, on theoretical and experimental advanced studies of …