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Laser-Directed Hierarchical Assembly of Liquid Crystal Defects and Control of Optical Phase Singularities
Paul J. Ackerman, Zhiyuan Qi, Yiheng Lin, Christopher W. Twombly, Mauricio J. Laviada, Yves Lansac, Ivan I. Smalyukh
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Paul J. Ackerman, Zhiyuan Qi, Yiheng Lin, Christopher W. Twombly, Mauricio J. Laviada, et al..
Laser-Directed Hierarchical Assembly of Liquid Crystal Defects and Control of Optical Phase Singu-
larities. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, 2012, 2 (1), �10.1038/srep00414�. �hal-01716457�
Laser-directed hierarchical assembly of liquid crystal defects and control of
optical phase singularities
Paul J. Ackerman
1,2, Zhiyuan Qi
1, Yiheng Lin
1, Christopher W. Twombly
1, Mauricio J. Laviada
1, Yves Lansac
1,3& Ivan I. Smalyukh
1,2,4,51
Department of Physics and Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA,
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Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA,
3