Mechanism of electrically induced photonic band gap broadening in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropies
Hossein Nemati, Shiyi Liu, Rafael S. Zola, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Kyung Min Lee, Timothy White, Timothy Bunningb e Deng-Ke Yan
Soft Matter – Volume: 11; Issue: 6; Pages: 1208-1213; DOI: 10.1039/C4SM02283A
We experimentally observed that the photonic band gap (reflection band) of polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropies can be greatly broadened under DC electric […]