Permanent photoalignment of liquid crystals on nanostructured chalcogenide glassy thin films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Gelbaor, Miri ^a   Klebanov, Matvey ^a   Lyubin, Victor ^a   Abdulhalim, I ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE LIGHT; CHALCOGENIDE GLASS; CHALCOGENIDE GLASSY; HIGH CONTRAST; NANO-STRUCTURED; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERS; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT; PHOTO-INDUCED; PHOTO-INDUCED ANISOTROPY;

ALIGNMENT; CRYSTALS; GLASS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; PHASE CHANGE MEMORY; THIN FILMS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79951913335     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3555630     Document Type: Article

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