Lasing in an intermediate twisted phase between cholesteric and smectic A phase

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Chanishvili, Andro ^a   Chilaya, Guram ^a   Petriashvili, Gia ^a   Barberi, Riccardo ^b   De Santo, Maria P ^b   Matranga, Mario A ^b   Ciuchi, Federica ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYBERNETICS   (Georgia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIXTURES; PHASE COMPOSITION; PHOTONS;

LONG-WAVELENGTH EDGE; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; SMECTIC A PHASE; TWISTED PHASES;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33644910917     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2183822     Document Type: Article

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