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Qaiser, Maryam, Bano, Afsar, Shaukat, Ammad, Hussain, Syed Zajif, Ulhaq, Ata, Khan, Ammar A. |
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Journal of Applied Physics; 11/28/2022, Vol. 132 Issue 20, p1-10, 10p |
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Liquid crystal (LC) materials exhibit interesting electro-optic switching and molecular ordering properties. Furthermore, the addition of chemically compatible active emitters such as core-shell quantum dots (QD) in a LC medium allows optical as well as dielectric tuning in an anisotropic, reconfigurable ordered medium. Order in a nematic LC phase is characterized by an orientational order parameter. In this work, we demonstrate the use of patterned substrates to generate arrays of integer topological defects in a nematic LC medium doped with cadmium selenide (core) cadmium sulfide (shell) core–shell QDs. We demonstrate the formation of metastable air-pillar-induced integer topological defects (TDs) in relatively thinner 9 μm LC sandwich cells, and the formation of field-induced TDs in thicker (25 μm) cells. Simultaneously, the self-assembly of core-shell QDs into square arrays on the patterned substrates is discussed, highlighting potential electro-optic device applications. The surfactant hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) is found to play a significant role in LC TD formation as well as QD spatial organization at the optimized concentration. Self-assembly and ordering of single- and multi-component LCs within structured devices is a highly relevant problem for modern optoelectronic devices. This work opens new possibilities for classical as well as quantum light sources which require spatially ordered optical emitters in a reconfigurable dielectric medium at a micron-scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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