Mechanism of electrically induced photonic band gap broadening in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropies

Soft Matter

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1208-1213

  Nemati, Hossein ^a   Liu, Shiyi ^a   Zola, Rafael S ^a,c   Tondiglia, Vincent P ^b   Lee, Kyung Min ^b   White, Timothy ^b   Bunning, Timothy ^b   Yang, Deng Ke ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDADE TECNOLÓGICA FEDERAL DO PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY GAP; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; POLYMERS;

DC ELECTRIC FIELD; DISPERSED POLYMERS; LIQUID CRYSTAL CELLS; NEGATIVE DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; PHENOMENOLOGICAL THEORY; POLYMER NETWORKS; POLYMER-STABILIZED CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFLECTION BANDS;

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84961287872     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02283a     Document Type: Article

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