Dual-mode switching of diffraction gratings based on azobenzene-polymer- stabilized liquid crystals

Advanced Materials

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 370-374

  Tong, Xia ^a   Wang, Guang ^a   Yavrian, Artashes ^b   Galstian, Tigran ^b   Zhao, Yue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D OPTIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ISOMERIZATION; LASER BEAMS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; POLYMERIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (CLC); DIFFRACTION EFFICIENCY; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (FLC); POLYMER-DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS (PDLC); UV-VISIBLE IMAGE CONVERSION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 14644391516     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200400794     Document Type: Article

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