Abstract

Liquid crystals are anisotropic fluids with long-range directional order. They can be easily used to create topological defects, but creating a controlled topological defect is difficult and involves many tasks and complex processes. However, in our study, we were able to easily generate disclinations in the symmetry-breaking boundaries of an azo dye-doped nematic liquid crystal cell owing to photoisomerization and symmetry-breaking isotropic-nematic phase transition. The method proposed here marks the starting point for the easier control of topological defects in liquid crystals.

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