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Alignment Influence on binary Nematic liquid Crystals Gratings
Author(s) -
Bouvier M.,
Scharf T.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1889/1.1834126
Subject(s) - liquid crystal , electric field , binary number , homogeneous , optics , materials science , phase (matter) , modulation (music) , biaxial nematic , diffraction grating , diffraction , optoelectronics , physics , thermodynamics , arithmetic , mathematics , quantum mechanics , acoustics
Computer simulations of the director reorientation of nematic liquid crystals (NLC) in spatially non‐homogeneous electric fields are used to characterize NLC diffractive gratings. The resulting phase modulation and far‐field propagation pattern is compared with measurements for binary gratings.