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Orientational Transition in a Liquid Crystal Triggered by the Thermodynamic Growth of Interfacial Wetting Sheets
Published on: May 15, 2017
Planar photonic crystals infiltrated with liquid crystals: optical characterization of molecule orientation
R Ferrini1, J Martz, L Zuppiroli
1Laboratoire d'Optoélectronique des Matériaux Moléculaires, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Switzerland.
Optics Letters
|April 28, 2006
Abstract:
Nematic liquid crystals are infiltrated into InP-based planar photonic crystals. Optical measurements as a function of temperature and polarization are used to study the average director field configuration in the nanometer-size holes: a planar equilibrium state is found.
