Extended Data Fig. 10: Cantilever encoding of dipole orientation.
From: Multistable polar textures in geometrically frustrated nematic liquid crystals
a, Polarized light micrograph and numerical model illustrating spiral-pattern dipole orientation. b, Polarized light micrographs show representative straight-line arrays of dipoles (Supplementary Movie 6). Dipoles are preset to 6 o’clock. Single-headed arrows indicate the orientation of elastic dipoles, with the arrow color representing the orientation as defined in Extended Data Fig. 2a. White disks indicate the vacancies (micropillars without an associated defect). Crossed, double-headed arrows indicate the direction of the crossed polarizers.
