Bandwidth broadening induced by ionic interactions in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1465-1472

  Tondiglia, Vincent P ^a,b   Natarajan, Lalgudi V ^a,b   Bailey, Christopher A ^a,b   McConney, Michael E ^a   Lee, Kyung Min ^a,c   Bunning, Timothy J ^a   Zola, Rafael ^d   Nemati, Hossein ^d   Yang, Deng Ke ^d   White, Timothy J ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b FREDERICK NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Azimuth Corporation   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; ELECTRIC FIELDS;

BANDWIDTH BROADENING; DC ELECTRIC FIELD; IONIC INTERACTION; NEGATIVE ELECTRODE; POLYMER STABILIZED; POLYMER-STABILIZED CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; POSITIVE ELECTRODES; REFLECTIVE MATERIALS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84903955253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.4.001465     Document Type: Article

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