Electro-optic effect in crystalline films of transverse planar octupolar symmetry

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 7979-7991

  Jeong, Mi Yun ^a   Brasselet, Sophie ^b   Cho, Bong Rae ^c   Lim, Tong Kun ^c  

^a Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

CRYSTALLINE FILMS; ELECTRIC FIELD DEPENDENCE; ELECTRIC FIELD MODULATION; ELECTRO-OPTIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRO-OPTIC COUPLING; ELECTROOPTIC EFFECTS; INDUCED REFRACTIVE INDEX; MAXIMUM VALUES; MOLECULAR PLANES; MOLECULAR THIN FILM; OCTUPOLES;

MOLECULAR ORIENTATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 79955436600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007979     Document Type: Article

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