Dowsing for electric fields in liquid crystals

Posted by on June 4, 2019 12:12 pm
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Nematic liquid crystals can be oriented in a curious way termed the ‘dowser texture’, which is sensitive to external conditions. Physicists have now published an article that shows that the dowser texture responds to electric fields in different ways in different nematic materials.

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