Simultaneous near-field optical birefringence and fluorescence contrast applied to the study of dye-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 105, Issue 25, 2001, Pages 5874-5882

  Higgins, Daniel A ^a   Liao, Xiangmin ^a   Hall, Jeffrey E ^a   Mei, Erwen ^a,b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER-DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS (PDLC);

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISPERSIONS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYES; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE; NEAR FIELD SCANNING OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0035963785     PISSN: 10895647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp010415m     Document Type: Article

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