Broadening of light reflection in glassy cholesteric materials and switchable Polymer-Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4463, Issue , 2001, Pages 11-20

  Mitov, Michel ^a   Binet, Corinne ^a   Bourgerette, Christian ^a  

^a CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Broadband filters; Cholesteric liquid crystals; Glassy state; Light reflection; Pitch gradient; Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals; Switching process; TEM

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BANDWIDTH; BIREFRINGENCE; GLASS; LIGHT REFLECTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GLASSY CHOLESTERIC MATERIALS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0035763110     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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