Thesis supervisor: Ágnes Buka
Location of studies (in Hungarian): Wigner Research Center for Physics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Abbreviation of location of studies: Wigne
Description of the research topic:
A new experimental technique, a unique polarimetric microscopy should be applied to anisotropic soft matter like polymers, suspensions, liquid crystals etc, in order to study the distribution of the orientational order and its dynamics in those systems. The method can be applied either in reflection or transmission mode, to study phenomena on the surface or in the bulk of the matter, with a considerably higher time resolution than before. The aim is to investigate one of the actual hot topics like the alignment dynamics at the free surface of liquid crystals, the intrinsic structure of optical vortices induced by pattern forming instabilities, formation of topological defects e.g. Skyrmion-like structures and flow properties of anisotropic fluids in microfluidic channels.
Required language skills: English (excellent) Further requirements: Statistical physics, solid state physics, optics
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