Optical manipulation of self-aligned grapheme flakes in liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1324-1334

  Twombly, Christopher W ^a   Evans, Julian S ^a   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; THERMOTROPIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

BULK COMPOSITES; ELECTROOPTIC DEVICES; HOLOGRAPHIC OPTICAL TWEEZERS; LOW POWER; NEW APPLICATIONS; NON-CONTACT; OPTICAL MANIPULATION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SELF-ALIGNED; SPATIAL PATTERNING; TRANSPARENT ELECTRODE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84872714557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001324     Document Type: Article

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