Terahertz properties of liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy

Applied Optics

Volumn 49, Issue 30, 2010, Pages 5764-5767

  Vieweg, Nico ^a   Koch, Martin ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPIES; LIQUID CRYSTALS (LCS); NEGATIVE DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; SWITCHABLE TERAHERTZ DEVICES; TERA HERTZ; TIME DOMAIN;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 78149459631     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.49.005764     Document Type: Article

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