Integrated and topological liquid crystal photonics

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 418-429

  Muševič, Igor ^a,b  

^a JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

liquid crystal colloids; liquid crystals; photonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897626299     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2013.837516     Document Type: Article

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