Inhomogeneous nanoscale polymer-dispersed liquid crystals with gradient refractive index

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 3537-3539

  Ren, Hongwen ^a   Wu, Shin Tson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND DEVICE; DROPLET DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRONIC LENS; GRADIENT REFRACTIVE INDEX; NANO SCALE; PHASE RETARDATION; POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS; SWITCHABLE; TUNABLE FOCAL LENGTH; UNPOLARIZED LIGHT;

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 79958198761     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1519102     Document Type: Article

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