High temperature-gradient refractive index liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2002-2010

  Li, Jun ^a   Gauzia, Sebastian ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

MOLECULAR PACKING DENSITY; OPTICAL FREQUENCIES; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 2942715335     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.002002     Document Type: Article

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