Dynamic and complex optical patterns from colloids of cholesteric liquid crystal droplets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9384, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Noh, Junghyun ^a   Drevensek Olenik, Irena ^b   Yamamoto, Jun ^c   Lagerwall, Jan P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bragg reection; Cholesteric liquid crystals; Colloidal crystals; Microuidics; Pattern formation; Photonics; Selective reection

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DROPS; LASER OPTICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONICS;

BRAGG REECTION; COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS; MICROUIDICS; PATTERN FORMATION; SELECTIVE REECTION;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84947747375     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2180516     Document Type: Conference Paper

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