Large gradients of refractive index in nanosphere dispersed liquid crystal metamaterial with inhomogeneous anchoring: Monte Carlo study

Optical Materials

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1459-1463

  Pawlik, Grzegorz ^a   Walasik, Wiktor ^a   Mitus, Antoni C ^a   Khoo, Iam Choon ^b  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring forces; Effective refractive index; Monte Carlo simulations; NDLC metamaterial

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; METAMATERIALS; MODULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NANOSPHERES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ROCK BOLTING;

ANCHORING FORCES; DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; MODULATION AMPLITUDES; NDLC METAMATERIAL; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS (NLC); SPATIAL IN-HOMOGENEITY;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

EID: 79957948409     PISSN: 09253467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optmat.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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