Electrically driven three-dimensional solitary waves as director bullets in nematic liquid crystals

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 2912 - 10
• Main Authors: Li, Bing-Xiang, Borshch, Volodymyr, Xiao, Rui-Lin, Paladugu, Sathyanarayana, Turiv, Taras, Shiyanovskii, Sergij V., Lavrentovich, Oleg D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 25.07.2018; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 639/301/923/919; 639/766/189; Crystals; Electric fields; Humanities and Social Sciences; Liquid crystals; Molecular chains; multidisciplinary; Nematic crystals; Projectiles; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Solitary waves; Wave propagation

Electric field-induced collective reorientation of nematic molecules is of importance for fundamental science and practical applications. This reorientation is either homogeneous over the area of electrodes, as in displays, or periodically modulated, as in electroconvection. The question is whether...