Optical reorientation and trapping of nematic liquid crystals leading to the formation of micrometer-sized domain

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 115, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 11906-11913

  Usman, Anwar ^a   Uwada, Takayuki ^a   Masuhara, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFOCAL RAMAN MICROSPECTROSCOPY; DEORIENTATION; DICHROIC RATIOS; DOMAIN FORMATION; FOCAL SPOT; FOCAL VOLUME; FOCUSED NEAR-INFRARED LASER BEAM; LASER IRRADIATIONS; METASTABLE DOMAIN; OPTICAL TRAPPING AND MANIPULATION; RAMAN INTENSITIES; REFRACTIVE INDEX MISMATCH; THIN SLAB; TIGHTLY FOCUSED LASER BEAM;

CRYSTALS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED LASERS; LASER BEAMS; MICROMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SLAB MILLS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79959213560     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp200721f     Document Type: Article

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