Reflection of multi-domain structured cholesteric liquid crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4463, Issue , 2001, Pages 181-187

  Bohley, Christian ^a   Scharf, Toralf ^a   Klappert, R ^b   Grupp, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b Research And Development Laboratories   (South Africa)

Author keywords

4 4 Berreman matrix method; Cholesteric liquid crystal; Domain structure; Polymer dispersed cholesteric liquid crystal

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DOMAIN STRUCTURES;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0035763112     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449948     Document Type: Article

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