Theoretical and experimental optical studies of cholesteric liquid crystal films with thermally induced pitch gradients

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Zografopoulos, Dimitrios C ^a,b   Kriezis, Emmanouil E ^a,b   Mitov, Michel ^b   Binet, Corinne ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b CEMES CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTIMIZATION; REFLECTION; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CRYSTAL FILMS; HELICAL STRUCTURE; PITCH GRADIENTS; STOCHASTIC PITCH VARIATION;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33744905375     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.73.061701     Document Type: Article

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