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A comparative study of light scattering from liquid crystal droplets
Author(s) -
Kriezis Emmanouil E.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.10632
Subject(s) - rayleigh scattering , finite difference time domain method , liquid crystal , scattering , microwave , optics , light scattering , physics , materials science , computational physics , quantum mechanics
Light scattering from electrically small nematic liquid crystal droplets is routinely studied by methods based on the Rayleigh–Gans (RG) approximation. The error introduced by the Rayleigh–Gans approximation is critically assessed for radial, bipolar, and aligned spherical droplets. Comparisons are made with respect to the prediction of the finite‐difference time‐domain (FDTD) method for the above droplet configurations. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 35: 437–441, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.10632