Light-driven rotation and pitch tuning of self-organized cholesteric gratings formed in a semi-free film

Polymers

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 295-

  Ma, Ling Ling ^a   Duan, Wei ^a   Tang, Ming Jie ^a   Chen, Lu Jian ^b   Liang, Xiao ^c   Lu, Yan Qing ^a   Hu, Wei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Cholesteric liquid crystal; Isomerization; Light driven; Micromanipulation; Photoalignment; Self assembly; Semi free film

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ISOMERIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MICROMANIPULATORS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

BEAM-STEERING; FREE FILMS; LIGHT DRIVEN; MICRO MANIPULATION; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT;

ROTATION;

EID: 85025649521     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/polym9070295     Document Type: Article

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