English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Free Plan

We investigated the effects of laser irradiation on sessile droplets of threewell-known liquid crystalline 12 materials (5CB, 8CB, E7) deposited on thesurface of an iron-doped lithium niobate (LN:Fe) crystal. The static electric13 field, which is generated via the bulk photovoltaic effect in the LN:Fesubstrate, produces the merging of smaller 14 droplets into filaments orientedin the radial direction with respect to the laser spot. It also inducesfilament jetting 15 from the rim of larger droplets toward the center of theillumination area. When the laser beam is focused directly 16 onto the largerdroplets, they abruptly disintegrate via the formation of several jet streams.The described effects are 17 present in the nematic and also in the isotropicphase. We attribute them to a large gradient of the surface electric field 18that produces driving forces via the induced dipole moments of the droplets,analogous to electric field-based droplets 19 transport mechanisms known forstandard dielectric liquids.

Optical manipulation of sessile droplets of nematic liquid crystalline materials on the surface of a photovoltaic crystal