Refractive-index matching between liquid crystals and photopolymers

Journal of the Society for Information Display

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1017-1026

  Li, Jun ^a   Baird, Greg ^a   Lin, Yi Hsin ^a   Ren, Hongwen ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Norland polymers; Polymer dispersed liquid crystals; Refractive index

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; LIGHT REFRACTION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PHOTOPOLYMERS; POLYMERS; POWDERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

ABBE REFRACTOMETERS; CRYSTAL MIXTURES; DEVICE PERFORMANCES; INDEX MATCHING; MATCHING PROPERTIES; NORLAND POLYMERS; OPTICAL ADHESIVES; PHOTOCURABLE POLYMERS; SPECTRAL REGIONS; TEMPERATURE RANGES; VISIBLE SPECTRAL REGIONS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 33745172326     PISSN: 10710922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1889/1.2150371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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