CCSU Liquid Crystals Group

The CCSU Liquid Crystals Group, composed of CCSU students and led by Dr. Garbovskiy, focuses on liquid crystal science and technology. The group explores how the physical properties of liquid crystals can be controlled by exploiting nanomaterials, emphasizing new phenomena and developing new paradigms. This involves developing new approaches to control ions in molecular liquid crystals using a combination of nanoparticles and conducting systematic studies of the optical and nonlinear-optical properties of newly designed glass-forming ionic liquid crystals containing nanomaterials. Additionally, we study the electro-optical applications of liquid crystals beyond traditional displays, including privacy windows and fast-switching tunable filters for advanced microscopy. The students regularly present their research results at national and international conferences and co-author research papers. Interested in liquid crystal research? Please contact Dr. Garbovskiy at ygarbovskiy@ccsu.edu

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Presenting a research poster on privacy windows (left) at the APS March Meeting in Las Vegas

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The joy of conducting electro-optical experiments. 

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Students measure the thickness of a liquid crystal cell. 

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Another oral presentation at the Fall Meeting of the APS New England Section, at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island.