Liquid crystals, photonic crystals, metamaterials, and transformation optics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5143-5144

  Lavrentovich, Oleg D ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COLLOID; CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIQUID CRYSTAL; METAMATERIAL; NOTE; OPTICS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION INDEX; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE; WAVEFORM;

COLOR; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS;

EID: 79955085065     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1102130108     Document Type: Note

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