Liquid crystal director fields in micropores of photonic crystals

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Matthias, Heinrich ^a   Schweizer, Stefan L ^a   Wehrspohn, Ralf B ^a   Kitzerow, Heinz S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

MICROPOROSITY; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

INFRARED FREQUENCY; MACROPOROUS SILICON; TUNABLE DISPERSION;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 41649113538     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/9/9/S18     Document Type: Article

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