Going beyond the reflectance limit of cholesteric liquid crystals

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 361-364

  Mitov, Michel ^a   Dessaud, Nathalie ^a  

^a CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; MIRRORS; MONOMERS; PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION; REFLECTION; SENSORS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMBIENT (UNPOLARIZED) LIGHT; HELICITY INVERSION; PHOTOPOLYMERIZABLE MONOMERS; POLYMER NETWORKS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33646513525     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1619     Document Type: Article

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