Self-Organized Periodic Photonic Structure in a Nonchiral Liquid Crystal

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Ruan, L Z ^a   Sambles, J R ^a   Stewart, I W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CRYSTAL LATTICES; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

CELL THICKNESS; NONCHIRAL LIQUID CRYSTAL; OPTICAL POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; SMECTIC DENSITY WAVE;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 0042386559     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.033901     Document Type: Article

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