Rotatable diffractive gratings based on hybrid-aligned cholesteric liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26837-26844

  Lin, Chi Huang ^a   Chiang, Ru Hsien ^a   Liu, Shu Hao ^a   Kuo, Chie Tong ^a   Huang, Chi Yen ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERING DEVICES; CELL GAPS; DIFFRACTIVE GRATING; ELECTRICAL EFFECTS; HELICAL PITCH; LAYER MODEL; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; ROTATIONAL ANGLE; STRIPED DOMAIN; VERTICALLY ALIGNED;

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

CHOLESTEROL;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; LIQUID CRYSTAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REFRACTOMETRY;

CHOLESTEROL; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMANS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84870610546     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026837     Document Type: Conference Paper

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