Electro-optic behavior of liquid-crystal-filled silica opal photonic crystals: Effect of liquid-crystal alignment

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 4052-4055

  Kang, Daeseung ^a,c   Maclennan, Joseph E ^a   Clark, Noel A ^a   Zakhidov, Anvar A ^b   Baughman, Ray H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b HONEYWELL   (United States)

^c Soongsil University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CRYSTAL GROWTH; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; LOW TEMPERATURE PROPERTIES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEDIMENTATION; SILICA;

HEXADECYLTRIMETHYLAMMONIUMBROMIDE; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; OPTICAL BRAGG REFLECTION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; THERMAL ANNNEALING;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0035971758     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4052     Document Type: Article

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