Anomalous intensity dependence of optical reorientation in azo-dye-doped nematic liquid crystals

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5 2, 2004, Pages

  Becchi, M ^a,b   Janossy, I ^b   Rao, D S S ^b,c   Statman, D ^d  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c CENTRE FOR NANO AND SOFT MATTER SCIENCES   (India)

^d ALLEGHENY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAQUINONE DYES; LIGHT-INDUCED DIRECTOR REORIENTATION; PHOTOISOMERIZATION; SUPRANONLINEAR EFFECTS;

ADSORPTION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; AZO DYES; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; INTEGRATION; ISOMERIZATION; ISOMERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES; TORQUE CONTROL;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 42749105274     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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