Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Three-dimensional solitary waves with electrically tunable direction of propagation in nematics

  • Bing-Xiang Li,
  • Rui-Lin Xiao,
  • Sathyanarayana Paladugu,
  • Sergij V. Shiyanovskii,
  • Oleg D. Lavrentovich

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11768-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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In a previous work, the authors have demonstrated the formation of localized waves in nematic liquid crystals driven by an electric field. Here they demonstrate the realization of solitary waves of (3+2)D type which can be steered along longitudinal and transverse directions by the electric field.