Representative Publications

Books

Dynamics and Defects in Liquid Crystals: A Festschrift for Alfred Saupe, ed. P.E. Cladis and P. Palffy-Muhoray, Gordon and Breach, 1998.

Spatio-Temporal Patterns in Nonequilibrium Complex Systems, ed. P.E. Cladis and P. Palffy-Muhoray, Addison Wesley, 1995.

Contributions to Books

P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Nonlinear Optical Properties of Liquid Crystals”, in Physical Properties of Liquid Crystals, ed. D. Demus, J. Goodby, G.W. Gray, H.-W. Spiess, V. Vill (Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 1999)

P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Z-scan Measurements of Optical Nonlinearities of Liquid Crystals", (invited), in Phase Transitions, ed. A.M. Figueiredo Neto and P. Toledano, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1998)

P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Bergersen, H. Lin, R.B. Meyer and Z. Racz, “Filaments in Liquid Crystals: Structure and Dynamics”, in Pattern Formation in Complex Dissipative Systems, ed. S. Kai, World Scientific, 1991.

Journals

A. Haji-Akbari, M. Engel, A.S. Keys, X. Zheng, R.G. Petschek, P. Palffy-Muhoray,
and S.C. Glotzer, "Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra", Nature, 462, 773-777, (2009).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Liquid crystals: Printed actuators in a flap", Nature Materials (News and Views), 8, 614-615, (2009).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, "The Diverse World of Liquid Crystals", Physics Today, September 2007.

P. Palffy-Muhoray, Xiaoyu Zheng, "Distance of closest approach of two arbitrary hard ellipses in 2D", Phys. Rev. E 75, 061709 (2007).

R. Verduzco, N. Scruggs, S. Sprunt, P. Palffy-Muhoray, J. Kornfield, "Director Dynamics in Liquid Crystal Physical Gels", Soft Matter, 3, 993-1002 (2007).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, W. Cao, M. Moreira, B. Taheri, A. Munoz, "Photonics and Lasing in Liquid Crystal Materials", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A, 364, 2747-61 (2006).

R. Ennis, L. Malacarne, P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Shelley, "Nonlocal model for Nematic Liquid-Crystal Elastomers", Phys Rev. E 75, 061802- (2006).

I. Smalyukh, B. Senyuk, P. Palffy-Muhoray, O.D. Lavrentovich, H. Huang, E.C. Gartland, Jr., V.H. Bodnar, T. Kosa, B. Taheri, "Electric-Field-Induced Nematic-Cholesteric Transition and Three-Dimensional Director Structures in Homeotropic Cells," Phys. Rev. E 72, 061707 (2005).

M. F. Moreira, I.C.S. Carvalho, W. Cao, C. Bailey, B. Taheri and P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Laser as an Optic-Fiber Based Temperature Sensor", App. Phys. Lett. 85, 2691-93, (2004)

P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Camancho-Lopez., H. Finkelmann and M. Shelley, "Fast Liquid Crystal Elastomer Swins Into the Dark", Nat. Mat. 3, 307-310 (2004).

N. Abraham and P. Palffy-Muhoray, "A Dunking Bird of the Second Kind", Am. J. Phys. 72, 782-785 (2004).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, M. Camacho-Lopez., H. Finkelmann and M. Shelley, “Fast liquid crystal elastomer swims into the dark”, Nature Materials. 3, 307-310 (2004).

M.F. Moreira, I.C.S. Carvalho, W. Cao, C. Bailey, B. Taheri and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Cholesteric liquid-crystal laser as an optic-fiber based temperature sensor”, App. Phys. Lett. 85, 2691-2693, (2004).

N. Abraham and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “A Dunking Bird of the Second Kind”, Am. J. Phys. 72, 782-785 (2004).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, R. Meyer, “Liquid Crystal Gels: Bridging the experiment-theory gap”, Nature Materials (News & Views), 139-140, March (2004).

W. Cao, A. Muñoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray and B. Taheri, “Lasing in a three-dimensional photonic crystal of the liquid crystal blue phase II”, Nature Materials, 111-113, Oct., (2002).

S. Bardon, D. Coleman, N.A. Clark, T. Kosa, H. Yuan and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Three dimensional dye distribution in photo-oriented liquid crystal alignment layers”, Europhys. Lett. 58 (1), 67-73, (2002).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, T. Kosa and Weinan E, “Brownian Motors in the Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals”, Appl. Phys. A 75, 293-300 (2002).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, “The Single Particle Potential in Mean Field Theory”, Am. J. Phys. 70, 433-437 (2002).

H. Finkelmann, S.T. Kim, A, Munoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray and B. Taheri, “Tunable Mirrorless Lasing in Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Elastomers”, Adv. Mat. 1069-1072, 13, (2001).

P. Fast, L. Kondic, M.J. Shelley and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Pattern Formation in Non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw Flow”, Phys. Fluids 13, 1191-1212 (2001).

A. Munoz F., P. Palffy-Muhoray and B. Taheri, “Ultraviolet lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals”, Opt. Lett. 26, 804-806 (2001).

A. Jakli, T. Kosa, A. Vajda, E. Benkler, I. Janossy, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Optically induced periodic structures in smectic-C liquid crystals”, Phys. Rev. E: 63, 011705-1 – 011705-4 (2001).

T. Kosa and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Mirage Mirror on the Wall”, Am. J. Phys. 68, 1120-1122 (2000).

H. Yuan, W. E and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Analytical solution of Maxwell’s Equations in lossy and optically active crystals”, Phys. Rev. E 61, 3264-3266 (2000).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, A. Munoz, B. Taheri and R. Twieg, “Lasing in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals”, SID 00 Digest, 1170-1173 (2000).

M. Carme Calderer and P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Ericksen's bar and modeling of the smectic A-Nematic phase transition", SIAM J. App. Math. 60, 1073-1098 (2000).

H. Yuan and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Demonstration of a Waveguide-Based LCD”, SID Digest of Technical Papers, 30, 714-717 (1999).

W. E and P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Dynamics of Filaments during the Isotropic-Smectic A Phase Transition", J. Nonlin. Sci. 9, 417-437 (1999).

H. Yuan, P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Waveguide based liquid crystal display”, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 331, 281-288 (1999).

A. Reyes and P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Nonlinear Schrodinger Equation in Nematic Liquid Crystals", Phys. Rev. E 58, 5855-5859 (1998).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, "New Designs in Cholesteric Colour", Nature (News & Views), 391, 745-747 (1998).

L. Kondic, M.J. Shelley and P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw flow, and the Saffman-Taylor instability", Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1433-1436 (1998).

L. Bartolo and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “SAM-Net: Connecting Students & Teachers to Scientific Research through Scientific Communication & Electronic Networking”, J. Comp. in Math. and Sci. Teaching 17, 133-147 (1998).

P. Palffy-Muhoray and W. E, "Orientational Ratchets and Angular Momentum Balance in the Janossy Effect", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 320, 193-206 (1998).

W. E and P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Domain Size in the Presence of Random Fields", Phys. Rev. E 57, 135-137 (1998).

W. E and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Phase Separation in Incompressible Systems”, Phys. Rev. E. 55, R3844-R3846 (1997).

J. Kelly and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Normal Modes of a Radial Nematic Droplet”, Phys. Rev. E. 55, 4378-4381 (1997).

P. Palffy-Muhoray and W. E, “Wavelength Selection in Slowly Quenched Systems”, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 292, 345-349 (1997).

L. Kondic, P. Palffy-Muhoray and M.J. Shelley, “On Models of Non-Newtonian Hele-Shaw Flow”, Phys. Rev. E. 54, R4536-R4539 (1996).

T. Kosa and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Optically Aligned Liquid Crystals: Physics and Applications”, Pure Appl. Opt., 5, 595-602 (1996).

T. Kosa and P. Palffy-Muhoray, “Magnetic Field Induced Deformations in Nematic Liquid Crystals”, Liq. Cryst. Today, 6, 7-9 (1996).

W. Gibbons, T. Kosa, P. Palffy-Muhoray, P.J. Shannon, S.T. Sun, “Continuous Gray-Scale Obtained via Polarized Light Alignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals,” Nature 377, 43-46 (1995).

P. Palffy-Muhoray, and K.D. Singer, “Displays Based on Organic Thin Films,” Opt. Photonics News (invited) 6, 17-22 (1995).

P. Palffy Muhoray, E.C. Gartland, J.R. Kelly, "A New Configurational Transition in Inhomogeneous Nematics," Liq. Cryst. 16(4), 713-718 (1994).

J.R. Kelly, P. Palffy Muhoray, "The Optical Response of Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 243, 11-29 (1994).

W. Zhao, P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Z-Scan Measurement of ?(3) using Top-Hat Beams," App. Phys. Lett. 65(6), 673-675 (1994).

B. Bergersen, D. Boal, P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Equilibrium Configuration of Particles on a Sphere: the Case of Logarithmic Interactions," J. Phys. A: Math Gen. 2, 2579-2586 (1994).

H. Lin, P. Palffy-Muhoray, "Propagation of TM Modes in a Nonlinear Liquid Crystal Waveguide," Opt. Lett. 19(7), 436-438 (1994).