Tunable negative refraction in nematic liquid crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 22, 2006, Pages

  Zhao, Qian ^a   Kang, Lei ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Zhou, Ji ^a   Tang, Hong ^a   Zhang, Baizhe ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; OPTIMIZATION; REFRACTION; THERMAL EFFECTS; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

NEGATIVE GROUP REFRACTION; TUNABLE NEGATIVE REFRACTION;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 33751563908     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2399345     Document Type: Article

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