Unusual double four-lobe textures generated by the motion of carbon nanotubes in a nematic liquid crystal

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 11698-11705

  Jeong, Seok Jin ^a   Sureshkumar, Palanivelu ^a   Jeong, Kwang Un ^a   Srivastava, Anoop K ^a   Lee, Seung Hee ^a   Jeong, Seok Ho ^b   Lee, Young Hee ^b   Lu, Ruibo ^c   Wu, Shin Tson ^c  

^a Chonbuk National University   (South Korea)

^b Institute for Basic Science   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; TEXTURES;

FOUR-LOBE TEXTURES;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 34548381772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.011698     Document Type: Article

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