Direction switching and beam steering of cholesteric liquid crystal gratings

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 13, 2012, Pages

  Jau, Hung Chang ^a   Lin, Tsung Hsien ^a   Chen, Yan Yu ^b   Chen, Chun Wei ^a   Liu, Jui Hsiang ^b   Fuh, Andy Y G ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM-STEERING; CELL GAPS; ELECTRICAL SWITCHING; OPTICAL SWITCHING; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS; PITCH LENGTH;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POWER QUALITY;

SWITCHING;

EID: 84859531873     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3698384     Document Type: Article

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