Electro-optic effects in colloidal dispersion of metal nano-rods in dielectric

Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 390-416

  Golovin, Andrii B ^a   Xiang, Jie ^a   Park, Heung Shik ^a   Tortora, Luana ^a   Nastishin, Yuriy A ^a,b   Shiyanovskii, Sergij V ^a   Lavrentovich, Oleg D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL OPTICS   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Dielectrophoretic effect; Field induced birefringence; Gold nano rods; Gradient of refractive index; Liquid crystal formed by metal particles; Optical cloak; Optical metamaterial

Indexed keywords

DIELECTROPHORETIC EFFECTS; DIELECTROPHORETIC FORCES; ELECTRIC FIELD GRADIENTS; ELECTRIC-FIELD CONTROL; FIELD INDUCED; METAL PARTICLE; OPTICAL CLOAK; TRANSFORMATION OPTICS;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; GOLD; LIQUID CRYSTALS; METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

NANORODS;

EID: 79955083153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma4020390     Document Type: Article

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