Hysteresis-free blue phase liquid-crystal-stabilized by ZnS nanoparticles

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Volumn 8, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 2189-2193

  Wang, Ling ^a   He, Wanli ^a   Xiao, Xia ^b   Meng, Fanguo ^a   Zhang, Yang ^a   Yang, Pangyen ^b   Wang, Liping ^a   Xiao, Jiumei ^a   Yang, Huai ^a,c   Lu, Yunfeng ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b AU Optronics Trade Shanghai Corporation   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

electro optical properties; hysteresis; zinc sulfide; ZnS nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

BLUE PHASE; DOPING LEVELS; ELECTRO-OPTICAL SWITCHING; ELECTROOPTICAL PROPERTIES; ZNS NANOPARTICLES;

HYSTERESIS; NANOPARTICLES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ZINC SULFIDE;

EID: 84864131188     PISSN: 16136810     EISSN: 16136829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201200052     Document Type: Article

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