Molecular properties of liquid crystals in the terahertz frequency range

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6097-6107

  Vieweg, Nico ^a,d   Jansen, Christian ^a,d   Shakfa, Mohammad Khaled ^a,d   Scheller, Maik ^a,d   Krumbholz, Norman ^a   Wilk, Rafat ^b   Mikulics, Martin ^c   Koch, Martin ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b MENLO SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC CIRCUIT BREAKERS; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; ALKYL CHAIN LENGTHS; CYANOBIPHENYLS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; MOLECULAR PROPERTIES; ORDER PARAMETER; POLARIZABILITIES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCY RANGE; TERAHERTZ RANGE; TERAHERTZ TIME DOMAIN SPECTROSCOPY; TRANSVERSE AXIS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TERAHERTZ RADIATION;

EID: 77949576001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006097     Document Type: Article

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