The present invention relates to polymer stabilized nematic liquid crystal microlenses. The microlenses can be made from a nematic liquid crystal, a chiral dopant, a reactive monomer, and a photoinitiator. The microlenses can be prepared by spin coating a liquid crystal mixture onto an array including a nickel transmission electron microscope grid. The focal length of the microlens array can be tuned electrically.

The present invention relates to a doped ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal having a chirality-induced stabilization of the polar nematic order, improved relaxation time for electro-optical switching, and selective reflection in the visible wavelength that is reversibly tunable. The ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal is doped with a chiral dopant selected from the group benzoic acid, 4-hexyl-,4-[[(1-methylheptyl)oxy]carbonyl]phenyl ester (ZLI811) and BDH1281.

The present invention relates to polymer stabilized nematic liquid crystal microlenses. The microlenses can be made from a nematic liquid crystal, a chiral dopant, a reactive monomer, and a photoinitiator. The microlenses can be prepared by spin coating a liquid crystal mixture onto an array including a nickel transmission electron microscope grid. The focal length of the microlens array can be tuned electrically.

A doped ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal includes a chirality-induced stabilization of the polar nematic order, improved relaxation time for electro-optical switching, and selective reflection in the visible wavelength that is reversibly tunable. The ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal is doped with a chiral dopant selected from benzoic acid, 4-hexyl-,4-[[(1-methylheptyl)oxy]carbonyl]phenyl ester (ZLI811) and BDH1281.

Composite materials and devices including composite materials are disclosed. Exemplary composite materials include a porous material and ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal within pores of the porous material. The composite materials can be used in a variety of applications, such as capacitors, information storage and processing, actuators, sensors, electro-caloric devices, energy storage and/or conversion devices utilizing piezoelectric effects. The porous material can be a solid, a polymer, glassy, crystalline, amorphous, foam, an aerogel or ceramic.

A polymer-stabilized liquid crystal (PSLC) composition includes a liquid crystal component having high dielectric constant, a chiral dopant, a stabilizing polymer, and a photo-initiator. Through the application of an applied voltage, the polymer-stabilized liquid crystal composition may be implemented to induce pixelated dimming in an AR display.

A polymer-stabilized liquid crystal (PSLC) composition includes a liquid crystal component having high dielectric constant, a chiral dopant, a stabilizing polymer, and a photo-initiator. Through the application of an applied voltage, the polymer-stabilized liquid crystal composition may be implemented to induce pixelated dimming in an AR display.