Self-alignment of liquid crystals in three-dimensional photonic crystals

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

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Gottardo, Stefano ^a   Burresi, Matteo ^a   Geobaldo, Francesco ^b   Pallavidino, Luca ^b   Giorgis, Fabrizio ^b   Wiersma, Diederik S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COLLOIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

INFILTRATED STRUCTURE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SELF-ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33750147001     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.040702     Document Type: Article

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