Extended Data Fig. 8: Microfluidic flow-induced reorientation of elastic dipoles.
From: Multistable polar textures in geometrically frustrated nematic liquid crystals
a, Design and dimension of microfluidic chamber. b, Polarized light micrographs showing elastic dipoles of micropillar array-confined LCs in a microfluidic chamber. A water flow towards 3 o’clock is applied. Single-headed arrows indicate the orientation of elastic dipoles, with the arrow color representing the orientation as defined by Extended Data Fig. 2a. White single-headed arrows represent the orientation of elastic dipoles towards 3 o’clock, excluding the six regions defined in Extended Data Fig. 2a. Crossed, double-headed arrows indicate the direction of the crossed polarizers.
