Figure 4.

Bright-field and polarized light micrographs of DADM capsules in water (left and center columns, crossed polarizers indicated by white arrows). Corresponding schematic illustrations of the LC director profiles are shown in the right column. The angle that the axis of symmetry of the droplet makes with the polarizer is 0° in (A), 14° in (B), and 43° in (C). (D) Two droplets with asymmetric shapes also exhibit signature features of bipolar ordering with arrows indicating the locations of boojum defects.