A novel approach for the determination of birefringence dispersion in nematic liquid crystals by using the continuous wavelet transform

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 790-795

  Köysal, Oǧuz ^a   San, S Eren ^b   Özder, Serhat ^a   Ecevit, F Necati ^a  

^a GEBZE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NATIONAL METROLOGY INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Birefringence dispersion; Liquid crystal; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

TRANSMITTANCE SPECTRA;

BIREFRINGENCE;

MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 0038078649     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/14/6/312     Document Type: Article

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