Enhanced photorefractive and third-order nonlinear optical properties of 5CB-based polymer-dispersed liquid crystals by graphene doping

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 118, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 18015-18020

  Li, Shulei ^a   Fu, Ming ^a   Sun, Haiyan ^a   Zhao, Yuqiong ^a   Liu, Yongchuan ^a   He, Dawei ^a   Wang, Yongsheng ^a  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; REFRACTION;

ABSORPTION CO-EFFICIENT; GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS; HIGH ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; NON-LINEAR REFRACTION; POLYMER DISPERSED LIQUID CRYSTALS; SURFACE MATCHING; THIRD ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TWO-BEAM COUPLING;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84905860866     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp505289r     Document Type: Article

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