Powerless tunable photonic crystal with bistable color and millisecond switching

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13707-13713

  Chan, Chia Tsung ^a   Yeh, J Andrew ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL; LIQUIDS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POROUS SILICON; WATER VAPOR; WETTING;

BISTABLES; CAPILLARY ACTION; NANO SCALE; SPECTRAL TUNING; TUNABLE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; TWO-STATE;

COLOR;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; FILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

COLOR; FILTRATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79959910608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013707     Document Type: Article

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