Stimuli-responsive cholesteric liquid crystal composites for optics and photonics

Digest of Technical Papers - SID International Symposium

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 555-558

  White, Timothy J ^a   Lee, Kyung Min ^b   McConney, Michael E ^b   Tondiglia, Vincent P ^c   Natarajan, Lalgudi V ^c   Bunning, Timothy J ^a  

^a Azimuth Corp ^*

^b Azimuth Corporation   (United States)

^c SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

BANDWIDTH BROADENING; DC FIELD; ELECTRO-OPTIC RESPONSE; POLYMER STABILIZATION; POLYMER STABILIZED; STIMULI-RESPONSIVE;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84905046665     PISSN: 0097966X     EISSN: 21680159     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-0159.2014.tb00145.x     Document Type: Article

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