Effect of crosslinking on the photonic bandgap in deformable cholesteric elastomers

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 5320-5331

  Hirota, Yoshihito ^a,b   Ji, Yan ^a   Serra, Francesca ^a   Tajbakhsh, Ali R ^a   Terentjev, Eugene M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MITSUI CHEMICALS INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ELASTOMERS; LASER TUNING; PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

CHOLESTERIC ELASTOMERS; FILM RELAXATION;

CROSSLINKING;

CHOLESTEROL; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; ELASTOMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHOLESTEROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ELASTICITY; ELASTOMERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 42149185637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.005320     Document Type: Article

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