Liquid-crystal materials find a new order in biomedical applications

SJ Woltman, GD Jay, GP Crawford - Nature materials, 2007 - nature.com
With the maturation of the information display field, liquid-crystal materials research is
undergoing a modern-day renaissance. Devices and configurations based on liquid-crystal …

Fabricating three‐dimensional polymeric photonic structures by multi‐beam interference lithography

JH Moon, J Ford, S Yang - Polymers for Advanced …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The fabrication of true three‐dimensional (3D) microstructures both rapidly and
economically over a large area with negligible defects is attractive for a wide range of …

Stimuli‐directing self‐organized 3D liquid‐crystalline nanostructures: from materials design to photonic applications

L Wang, Q Li - Advanced Functional Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
3D photonic nanostructures with desirable functionalities in the visible light region and
beyond have been recently given vast and increasing attentions because of the ability to …

Liquid-crystal diffraction gratings using polarization holography alignment techniques

GP Crawford, JN Eakin, MD Radcliffe… - journal of Applied …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
A method of patterning surfaces for liquid-crystal alignment using a polarization holography
exposure on a linear photopolymerizable polymer alignment layer is demonstrated. Three …

Electric field tuning of plasmonic response of nanodot array in liquid crystal matrix

PA Kossyrev, A Yin, SG Cloutier, DA Cardimona… - Nano …, 2005 - ACS Publications
In this work we demonstrate the feasibility of electric-field tuning of the plasmonic spectrum
of a novel gold nanodot array in a liquid crystal matrix. As opposed to previously reported …

Photonic crystals

Q Gong, X Hu - Principles and Applications, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Photonic Crystals Page 1 Gong | Hu Photonic Crystals Qihuang Gong Xiaoyong Hu Page 2
PHOTONIC CRYSTALS Page 3 Page 4 Qihuang Gong | Xiaoyong Hu PHOTONIC …

[HTML][HTML] Nanostructured polymers for photonics

C Paquet, E Kumacheva - Materials today, 2008 - Elsevier
We review recent progress in the development of polymer nanostructured materials with
periodic structures and compositions having applications in photonics and optical data …

Holographic polymer‐dispersed liquid crystals: materials, formation, and applications

YJ Liu, XW Sun - Advances in OptoElectronics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
By combining polymer‐dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) and holography, holographic PDLC
(H‐PDLC) has emerged as a new composite material for switchable or tunable optical …

Electrically switchable Bragg gratings

GP Crawford - Optics and Photonics News, 2003 - opg.optica.org
Holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) is a unique composite material
created by the periodic distribution of liquid crystal and polymer in stratified layers. When …

Novel miniaturized hyperspectral sensor for UAV and space applications

H Saari, VV Aallos, A Akujärvi, T Antila… - … , Systems, and Next …, 2009 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In many hyperspectral applications it is beneficial to produce 2D spatial images with a single
exposure at a few selected wavelength bands instead of 1D spatial and all spectral band …