Spatially periodic liquid crystal director field appearing in a photonic crystal template

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 24, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Matthias, Heinrich ^a   Röder, Thorsten ^a   Wehrspohn, Ralf B ^a   Kitzerow, Heinz S ^a   Matthias, Sven ^b   Picken, Stephen J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENCE; GLASS TRANSITION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; PHOTONS;

CONFOCAL POLARIZING MICROSCOPY; DISCLINATION RING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 30344448006     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2142100     Document Type: Article

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