Liquid crystal dynamics in a photonic crystal cavity created by selective microfluidic infiltration

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 26, 2010, Pages 27280-27290

  Casas Bedoya, A ^a   Mahmoodian, S ^a   Monat, C ^a   Tomljenovic Hanic, S ^b   Grillet, C ^a   Domachuk, P ^a   Magi E C ^a   Eggleton, B J ^a   Van Der Heijden, R W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROFLUIDICS; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS;

CAVITY LENGTH; CAVITY RESONANCES; CRYSTAL DYNAMIC; DOUBLE HETEROSTRUCTURES; EVANESCENT COUPLING; FABRY-PEROT MODELS; JOINT EFFECT; LARGE SURFACE AREA; LIQUID EVAPORATION; LIQUID VOLUME; LOW VAPOR PRESSURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; PLANAR PHOTONIC-CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL EVOLUTION;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MICROFLUIDICS; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROFLUIDICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 78650585476     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.027280     Document Type: Article

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