Stable selective gratings in LC polymer by photoinduced helix pitch modulation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2554-2560

  Ryabchun, Alexander ^a,b   Bobrovsky, Alexey ^b   Gritsai, Yuri ^c   Sakhno, Oksana ^a   Shibaev, Valery ^b   Stumpe, Joachim ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Institute of Thin Film Technology and Microsensorics   (Germany)

Author keywords

cholesteric phase; liquid crystalline polymer; phototunable helix pitch; polarization grating; selective light reflection

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION; DIFFRACTION; IRRADIATION; ISOMERS; LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIXTURES; MODULATION; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; PHOTOCHROMISM; POLYMER FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS;

CHOLESTERIC PHASE; DIFFRACTION ELEMENTS; HELICAL TWISTING POWER; HELIX PITCH; PHOTOCHROMIC COMPOUND; POLARIZATION GRATINGS; RIGHT CIRCULARLY POLARIZED; VISIBLE SPECTRAL RANGE;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 84922423161     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am507499p     Document Type: Article

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