Alignment and electrooptic effects in nanoparticle-doped nematic liquid crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7775, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kinkead, Brandy ^a   Urbanski, Martin ^b   Qia, Hao ^a   Kitzerow, Heinz S ^b   Hegmann, Torsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defects; Doping; Electroconvection; Electrooptics; Fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy; Kapustin Williams domains; Liquid crystals; Nanoparticles; Nematic; Quantum dots

Indexed keywords

DOPING; ELECTROCONVECTION; ELECTROOPTICS; FLUORESCENCE CONFOCAL POLARIZING MICROSCOPY; NEMATIC; QUANTUM DOT; WILLIAMS DOMAINS;

ALIGNMENT; COREMAKING; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTROHYDRODYNAMICS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FLUORESCENCE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES; SURFACE DEFECTS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77958050100     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.858831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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