Nanoscale alignment and optical nanoimaging of a birefringent liquid

Nanotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 32, 2008, Pages

  Barna, Valentin ^a   De Luca, Antonio ^b   Rosenblatt, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b CEMIFCAL   (Italy)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIQUIDS; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLYIMIDES; POLYMER FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

AFM CANTILEVERS; ALIGNMENT LAYERS; FILM SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; HIGH RESOLUTION; OPTICAL RETARDATION; POLYIMIDE ALIGNMENT LAYERS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; THIN OPTICAL FIBER;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY;

POLYIMIDE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NANOANALYSIS; NANOIMAGING; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 47249117417     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/19/32/325709     Document Type: Article

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