Optically activated shutter using a photo-tunable short-pitch chiral nematic liquid crystal

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Morris, S M ^a   Qasim, M M ^a   Cheng, K T ^a,b   Castles, F ^a   Ko, D H ^c   Gardiner, D J ^a   Nosheen, S ^a   Wilkinson, T D ^a   Coles, H J ^a   Burgess, C ^d   Hill, L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^d DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL DOPANT; CHIRAL NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CIS-TRANS; CROSSED POLARIZERS; DARK STATE; PHOTO-TUNABLE; ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT; VISIBLE LIGHT;

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; PHYSICS;

BIREFRINGENCE;

EID: 84884228721     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4818679     Document Type: Article

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