Enhancement of electro-optical response of ferroelectric liquid crystal: the role of graphene quantum dots

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1719-1725

  Kumar, Veeresh ^a,b   Kumar, Ajay ^c   Biradar, Ashok M ^a   Reddy, G B ^b   Sachdev, Divya ^a,d   Pasricha, Renu ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT   (India)

^e TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

graphene quantum dots; photoluminescence; Raman; response time

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027940214     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2014.949888     Document Type: Article

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