High optical nonlinearity of nematic liquid crystals doped with gold nanoparticles

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 116, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 12934-12939

  Podoliak, Nina ^a   Bartczak, Dorota ^a   Buchnev, Oleksandr ^a   Kanaras, Antonios G ^a   Kaczmarek, Malgosia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCHORING STRENGTH; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; HIGH OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES; LIQUID CRYSTAL SUSPENSION; NONLINEAR INDEX COEFFICIENT; OPTICAL QUALITIES; PRE-TILT ANGLE; TETRAOCTYLAMMONIUM BROMIDE; TWO-BEAM COUPLING;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84862286540     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp302558c     Document Type: Article

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