Optical characterization of liquid crystals by combined ellipsometry and half-leaky-guided-mode spectroscopy in the visible-near infrared range

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Abbate, G ^a,b   Tkachenko, V ^c   Marino, A ^c   Vita, F ^c   Giocondo, M ^c   Mazzulla, A ^c   De Stefano, L ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c CNR IMM ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELLIPSOMETRY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ANISOTROPIC REFRACTIVE INDEX MEASUREMENTS; MUELLER MATRIX SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPIC MEASUREMENT; VISIBLE NEAR INFRARED RANGE;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 34247254930     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2714768     Document Type: Article

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