Photographs

In this section, you can enjoy a collection of polarized microphotographs from my Ph.D! 

Nematic shells under planar anchoring (x40).

Swollen nematic shells under planar anchoring (x4).

Nematic shells under hybrid anchoring (planar inside, perpendicular outside, x40).

Nematic shells under perpendicular anchoring, with a radial director field (x20).

Cholesteric shells with planar (smooth) and moderate perpendicular anchoring (thick and thin stripes, x40).

Cholesteric shells under moderate perpendicular anchoring with thin stripes shaped as a large double spiral (x60).

Fingers attached to a disclination line on a cholesteric shell under strong perpendicular anchoring (x60).

A cholesteric shell covered in torons under strong perpendicular anchoring (x60).

Clusters of quantum dots dispersed in isotropic droplets of liquid crystal (fluorescence microscopy).