A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has designed new kinds of liquid crystals that mirror the complex structures of some solid crystals—a major step forward in building flowing materials that ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Liquid crystals displays (LCDs) are widely used for laptops, smartphones, tablets etc. Typically, an electric field applied across a thin layer of liquid crystals changes their ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The screens we use every day – from smartphones to televisions – work by either filtering white light or creating their own illumination. These approaches have served well but ...

Any device that can control or change the amplitude, phase, or polarization of light waves is known as a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). “Current SLM–based systems use either optical MEMS ...

Optoelectronic engineers have manufactured a special type of LCD that is paper-thin, flexible, light and tough. With this, a newspaper could be uploaded onto a flexible paperlike display that could be ...