Electro-tunable optical diode based on photonic bandgap liquid-crystal heterojunctions

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 383-387

  Hwang, Jisoo ^a,b   Song, Myoung Hoon ^a   Park, Byoungchoo ^a,c   Nishimura, Suzushi ^d   Toyooka, Takehiro ^d   Wu, J W ^b   Takanishi, Yoichi ^a   Ishikawa, Ken ^a   Takezoe, Hideo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^c Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^d JAPAN ENERGY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

LASING EMISSION; OPTICAL DIODES; OPTICAL HETEROJUNCTION ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURE (OHAS); PHOTONIC-BANDGAP (PBG);

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 17644395273     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1377     Document Type: Article

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