Light-operated logic circuits from photonic soft-matter

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Grant agreement ID: 884928

DOI 10.3030/884928

EC signature date 15 October 2020

Start date 1 January 2021

End date 30 June 2026

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• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 474 267,50

EU contribution € 2 474 267,50

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INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN
Slovenia

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Peer reviewed articles (22)

Light-Powered Liquid Crystal Polymer Network Actuator Using TiO₂ Nanoparticles as an Inorganic Ultraviolet-Light Absorber

Author(s): Zhila Alipanah; Mohammad Sadegh Zakerhamidi; Hossein Movla; Batool Azizi; Igor Muševič; Amid Ranjkesh
Published in: ACS Omega 2023, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c00417

Ultrathin, transparent, thermally-insulated, and energy-efficient flexible window using coatable chiral-nematic liquid crystal polymer

Author(s): Ranjkesh, T.H. Yoon
Published in: Journal of molecular liquids, Issue Volume 339, 2021, ISSN 0167-7322
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2021.116804

Controllable shifting, steering, and expanding of light beam based on multi-layer liquid-crystal cells

Author(s): U. Mur, M. Ravnik and David Seč
Published in: scientific reports, Issue Volume 12, Number 1, 2022, Page(s) 352, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04164-0

Long-term stability predictions of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies in solution using Arrhenius-based kinetics

Author(s): D. Kuzman, M. Bunc, M. Ravnik, F. Reiter, L. Zagar and M. Bončina
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 11, Article number: 20534, 2021, Page(s) 20534, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99875-9

Flexible, broadband, super-reflective infrared reflector based on cholesteric liquid crystal polymer

Author(s): A. Ranjkesh, Y. Choi, J.W. Huh, S. Seung-Won, T. Hwang
Published in: Solar energy materials and solar cells, Issue Volume 230, 2021, ISSN 0927-0248
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2021.111137

Highly dispersive liquid crystal diffraction gratings with continuously varying periodicity

Author(s): I. Nys, P. Ropac, B. Berteloot, M. Ravnik, K. Neyts
Published in: Journal of Molecular Liquids, Issue Volume 383, 2023, ISSN 0167-7322
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2023.122062

Nematronics: Reciprocal Coupling between Ionic Currents and Nematic Dynamics

Author(s): C. Dao, J.C. Everts, M. Ravnik, and Y. Tserkovnyak
Published in: Phys. Rev. Lett., Issue Volume 130, Number 16, 2023, Page(s) 168102, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.168102

Continuous generation of topological defects in a passively driven nematic liquid crystal

Author(s): Maruša Mur; Žiga Kos; Miha Ravnik; Igor Muševič
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 13, 2022, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-34384-5

Topics in the mathematical design of materials

Author(s): Xian Chen, Irene Fonseca, MihaRavnik, Valeriy Slastikov, Claudio Zannoni, ArghirZarnescu
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Issue 37, 2021, Page(s) 20200108, ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0108

Introduction to Colloidal and Microfluidic Nematic Microstructures

Author(s): Simon Čopar, Miha Ravnik, Slobodan Žumer
Published in: Crystals, Issue 2021, 11 (8), 2021, ISSN 2073-4352
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/cryst11080956

Self-shaping liquid crystal droplets by balancing bulk elasticity and interfacial tension

Author(s): K. Peddireddy, S. Čopar, K. V. Le, I. Muševič, Ch. Bahr, and V. S. R. Jampani
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Issue No.14, vol. 118, 2021, Page(s) e2011174118-1-e2011174118-7, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011174118

Topological liquid crystal superstructures as structured light lasers

Author(s): M. Papič, U. Mur, K. P. Zuhail, M. Ravnik, I. Muševič, and M. Humar
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Issue No.49, vol. 118, 2021, Page(s) e2110839118-1-e2110839118-7, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110839118

Effects of polarized light on the optical and self-oscillation behaviors of liquid crystal network polymers

Author(s): Rana Zibaei; Mohammad Sadegh Zakerhamidi; Sirous Korram; Amid Ranjkesh
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Issue Issue 41, 2021, ISSN 2046-2069
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1tc03870b

Defect Line Coarsening and Refinement in Active Nematics

Author(s): N. Kralj, M. Ravnik, and Z. Kos
Published in: Phys. Rev. Lett., Issue Volume 130, Number 12, 2023, Page(s) 128101, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.128101

Surface alignment of nematic liquid crystals by direct laser writing of photopolymer alignment layers

Author(s): Uroš Jagodič, Mahendran Vellaichamy, Miha Skarabot and Igor Muševič
Published in: Liquid Crystals, 2023, ISSN 0267-8292
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2023.2242297

Photonic eigenmodes and transmittance of finite-length 1D cholesteric liquid crystal resonators

Author(s): Jaka Zaplotnik; Urban Mur; Deepshika Malkar; Amid Ranjkesh; Igor Muševič; Miha Ravnik
Published in: Sci Rep, Issue Volume 13, Number 1, 2023, Page(s) 16868, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43912-2

Neural networks determination of material elastic constants and structures in nematic complex fluids

Author(s): Jaka Zaplotnik; Jaka Pišljar; Miha Škarabot; Miha Ravnik
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-33134-x

Numerical modeling of optical modes in topological soft matter

Author(s): Urban Mur; Miha Ravnik
Published in: Optics Express, Issue Vol. 30, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 14393--14407, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/oe.454980

Pixelated Photonic Crystals

Author(s): Urban Mur; Miha Ravnik
Published in: Advanced Photonics Research, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2699-9293
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202300082

Active rejection-enhancement of spectrally adaptive liquid crystal geometric phase vortex coronagraph

Author(s): N. Kravets, U. Mur, M. Ravnik, S. Zumer and E. Brasselet
Published in: Appl. Phys. Lett., Issue Volume 121, Issue 24, 2022, Page(s) 241104, ISSN 0003-6951
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0130078

Three-dimensional spontaneous flow transition in a homeotropic active nematic

Author(s): Vincenzo J. Pratley, Enej Caf, Miha Ravnik, Gareth P. Alexander
Published in: Communications physics, Issue Vol. 7, 2024, Page(s) Article number 127, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-024-01611-y

Slow light by dual-periodic self-similar dielectric multilayered films

Author(s): Peter Ropač; Urban Mur; Miha Ravnik
Published in: Optics Express, Issue Vol. 31, No. 14, 2023, ISSN 1094-4087
Publisher: Optical Society of America
DOI: 10.1364/OE.493703

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Optical gain and photo-bleaching of organic dyes, quantum dots, perovskite nanoplatelets and nanodiamonds

Author(s): Mahendran Vellaichamy; Miha Škarabot; Igor Muševič
Published in: Liquid Crystals, Issue Vol.50, 2022, Page(s) 1-22, ISSN 1366-5855
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2023.2188614

Conference proceedings (1)

Optical gain and photostability of different laser dyes, quantum dots and quantum rods for liquid crystal micro lasers

Author(s): Mahendran Vellaichamy; Igor Muševič
Published in: Proc. SPIE 12023, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XVII,, Issue Vol. 12023, 2022, Page(s) 78--90, ISSN 1996-756X
Publisher: SPIE
DOI: 10.1117/12.2616092