Metal nanoparticle dispersion, alignment, and assembly in nematic liquid crystals for applications in switchable plasmonic color filters and E-polarizers

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 3097-3108

  Zhang, Yuan ^a,b   Liu, Qingkun ^a   Mundoor, Haridas ^a   Yuan, Ye ^a   Smalyukh, Ivan I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

colloids; electro optic switching; liquid crystals; metal nanoparticle; plasmonic polarizers and color filters; self Assembly; surface plasmon resonance

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ANISOTROPY; COLLOIDS; COLOR; CRYSTAL FILTERS; DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GOLD NANOPARTICLES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES; PLASMONS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

COLLOIDAL INTERACTION; COLOR FILTERS; ELECTRO-OPTIC SWITCHING; NANO-PARTICLE DISPERSIONS; NANOSTRUCTURED COMPOSITES; ORGANIC-INORGANIC COMPOSITE; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; VIEWING-ANGLE CHARACTERISTICS;

METAL NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84925624593     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5074644     Document Type: Article

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