Elucidating the fine details of cholesteric liquid crystal shell reflection patterns

Liquid Crystals

Volumn 44, Issue 12-13, 2017, Pages 1948-1959

  Geng, Yong ^a   Noh, JungHyun ^a   Drevensek Olenik, Irena ^b,c   Rupp, Romano ^d   Lagerwall, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bragg reflection; Cholesteric liquid crystals; photonic communication; spherical reflectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028575024     PISSN: 02678292     EISSN: 13665855     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2017.1363916     Document Type: Article

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