Liquid-crystal photonic-band-gap materials: The tunable electromagnetic vacuum

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 967-970

  Busch, Kurt ^a   John, Sajeev ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ENERGY GAP; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; VOLUME FRACTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC VACUUM; PHOTONIC-BAND-GAP (PBG) MATERIALS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0032607917     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.967     Document Type: Article

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