Studies of photonic crystal structures infiltrated with liquid crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6182, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kosmidou, Elissavet P ^a   Kriezis, Emmanouil E ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Molecular anchoring; Nematic liquid crystals; Photonic crystals; Tunable devices

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; INFILTRATION; MOLECULAR CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; SILICON;

MOLECULAR ANCHORING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SURFACE ANCHORING; TUNABLE DEVICES;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 33747637809     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.668356     Document Type: Conference Paper

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