Realisation of cholesteric liquid-crystalline materials reflecting both right- and left-circularly polarised light using the wash-out/refill technique

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 171-178

  Guo, Jinbao ^a   Liu, Fang ^b   Chen, Fengjin ^a   Wei, Jie ^a   Yang, Huai ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Cholesteric liquid crystal; Circularly polarised light; Memory effect; Polymer network; Wash out refill

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649143112     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678290903443897     Document Type: Article

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