Holographically Formed, Acoustically Switchable Gratings Based on Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 291-295

  Liu, Yan Jun ^a,b   Lu, Mengqian ^a   Ding, Xiaoyun ^a   Leong, Eunice S P ^b   Lin, Sz Chin Steven ^a   Shi, Jinjie ^a,c   Teng, Jing Hua ^b   Wang, Lin ^d   Bunning, Timothy J ^e   Huang, Tony Jun ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

^c Dow Chemical Company   (United States)

^d Research Triangle Park   (United States)

^e AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic streaming; H PDLC; surface acoustic waves

Indexed keywords

ADD/DROP FILTERS; H-PDLC; HOLOGRAPHIC POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTAL; PHOTONIC APPLICATION; POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES; SWITCHABLE GRATINGS;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE DEVICES; ACOUSTIC WAVES; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

POLYMER;

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; HOLOGRAPHY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLYMERIZATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL DIFFUSION;

ACOUSTIC STREAMING; H-PDLC; SURFACE ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ANIMALS; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; NIOBIUM; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; OXIDES; POLYMERS; SOUND;

EID: 84882257560     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 22110690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2211068212455632     Document Type: Article

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