Light-induced refractive index modulation in photoactive liquid-crystalline elastomers

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 214, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 2744-2751

  Tašič, Blaž ^a,b   Li, Wei ^c   Sánchez Ferrer, Antoni ^d   Čopič, Martin ^a,b   Drevenšek Olenik, Irena ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

holographic lithography; liquid crystal elastomers; optical diffraction gratings; optical patterning; photosensitive materials

Indexed keywords

HOLOGRAPHIC LITHOGRAPHY; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; OPTICAL DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; OPTICAL PATTERNING; PHOTOSENSITIVE MATERIALS;

AZOBENZENE; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFRACTION; ELASTOMERS; IRRADIATION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; MODULATION; MONOMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84889883293     PISSN: 10221352     EISSN: 15213935     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/macp.201300493     Document Type: Article

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