Cholesteric liquid crystal

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A cholesteric liquid crystal is a liquid crystal with a helical structure and which is therefore chiral. Cholesteric liquid crystals are also known as chiral nematic liquid crystals. They organise in layers with no positional ordering within layers, but a director axis which varies with layers. The variation of the director axis tends to be periodic and nature. The period of this variation is known as the pitch.

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