Manuel Caño-García

TL;DR: The design and characterisation of a reconfigurable multi-level spiral phase plate based on a pie-shape liquid-crystal structure with 24 slices driven by custom electronics that allow independent excitation control of each electrode is shown.

TL;DR: In this paper, the self-assembly behavior of several series of Pt(II) metallomesogens in two different media upon controlled conditions is described. And the effects of the alkyl chain length, the molecular asymmetry, and the nature of the ligands in the establishment of these interactions are also evaluated.

TL;DR: The novelty in this work is the inclusion of a new optical effect, flow enhanced amplification, that allows for the semiquantitative detection of microscopic targets in lyotropic liquid crystal cells using the naked eye only.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of plasmon resonances of the metallic nanoparticles on the optical response of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) was investigated and a number of different configurations of optical filters and phase devices whose resonant frequency depends on the chosen nanoparticle were proposed.

TL;DR: In this article, the electrical behavior of a TiO2 nanoparticle-doped liquid crystal cell using an equivalent circuit was analyzed using an impedance spectroscopy technique and time response measurements, which showed that the presence of the nanoparticles increases the temperature sensitivity of the equivalent cell capacitance and the capacitance difference between switched and nonswitched states.