Electrically and optically tunable plasmonic guest-host liquid crystals with long-range ordered nanoparticles

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4071-4077

  Liu, Qingkun ^a   Yuan, Ye ^a   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

gold nanoparticles; guest host display; Liquid crystal; plasmonic; self assembly

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DISPERSIONS; DISPLAY DEVICES; GOLD; LIQUID CRYSTALS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MOLECULES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SELF ASSEMBLY;

COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; ELECTRICAL SWITCHING; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; GUEST-HOST; LIQUID CRYSTAL HOST; PLASMONIC; SURFACE INTERACTIONS; SURFACE PRECIPITATION;

PLASMONS;

EID: 84904012526     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl501581y     Document Type: Article

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