Electro-optical switching by liquid-crystal controlled metasurfaces

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8879-8885

  Decker, Manuel ^a   Kremers, Christian ^b   Minovich, Alexander ^a   Staude, Isabelle ^a   Miroshnichenko, Andrey E ^a   Chigrin, Dmitry ^b,c   Neshev, Dragomir N ^a   Jagadish, Chennupati ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; METAMATERIALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL LATTICES;

BIAS ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRO-OPTICAL SWITCHING; HIGH SENSITIVITY; METASURFACES; MOLECULAR REORIENTATION; OPTICAL RESPONSE; SPLIT-RING RESONATOR; TIME-SCALES;

CRYSTAL SYMMETRY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATERIALS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 84875969544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008879     Document Type: Article

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