Fig. 9
From: Electrically driven three-dimensional solitary waves as director bullets in nematic liquid crystals
Scenarios of soliton's interactions with each other and with obstacles. a Polarizing microscopy of time sequence of annihilation of solitons “5” and “6”; U = 45.1 V, f = 600 Hz, T = 50 °C, d = 8.0 μm. b Locations of annihilating solitons (determined as the coordinate of the maximum of light transmittance) vs. time. c, d Disappearance of a soliton at a dust particle. U = 65.6 V, f = 800 Hz, T = 50 °C, d = 7.7 μm. Scale bar 100 µm. e, f Reflection of a soliton on a dust particle. U = 87.4 V, f = 1000 Hz, T = 45 °C, d = 8.2 µm. a, c, e present polarizing microscopy textures under crossed polarizers and a compensator, as shown in c
