Polymer-Stabilized Reflective Cholesteric Displays: Effects of Chiral Polymer Networks on Reflectance Properties

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1665-1669

  Dyer, Daniel J ^a,b   Schröder, U Paul ^a,c   Chan, K Pong ^a   Twieg, Robert J ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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EID: 0004949832     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm970070d     Document Type: Article

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