Orientational photorefractive effect in undoped and CdSe nanorods-doped nematic liquid crystal - Bulk and interface contributions

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 443-450

  Khoo, Iam Choon ^a,b,c,d   Chen, Kan ^a,b,c,e   Williams, Yana Zhang ^b,c,e  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^d Institute of Physics   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk and surface fields; CdSe nanorods; Dynamic holography; Liquid crystals; Photorefractivity; Threshold fields

Indexed keywords

BULK AND SURFACE FIELDS; CDSE NANORODS; DYNAMIC HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOREFRACTIVITY; THRESHOLD FIELDS;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS;

EID: 33745024074     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.871955     Document Type: Article

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