Photo-patterning micro-mirror devices using azo dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 4479-4485

  Lin, Tsung Hsien ^a,b   Huang, Yuhua ^a   Zhou, Ying ^a   Fuh, Andy Y G ^b   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO DYES; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; LIGHT REFLECTION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL (CLC); MICRO-MIRROR ARRAYS; MICRO-MIRROR DEVICES;

MIRRORS;

EID: 33646574964     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.004479     Document Type: Article

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