Temperature-dependent optical constants and birefringence of nematic liquid crystal 5CB in the terahertz frequency range

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Pan, Ru Pin ^a   Hsieh, Cho Fan ^a   Pan, Ci Ling ^a   Chen, Chao Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BIREFRINGENCE; OPTICAL CONSTANTS; PHASE STABILITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; ISOTROPIC PHASES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT OPTICAL CONSTANTS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY RANGES;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 43949108589     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2913347     Document Type: Article

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