Search Results - "Coles, Harry J"
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Simultaneous red-green-blue reflection and wavelength tuning from an achiral liquid crystal and a polymer template
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (05-01-2010)“…A broad and fast wavelength tuning of the photonic bandgap of a hybrid photonic band structure (PBS) formed from an achiral nematic liquid crystal and a…”
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Polychromatic liquid crystal laser arrays towards display applications
Published in Optics express (10-11-2008)“…Band-edge liquid crystal lasers are of interest for a number of applications including laser projection displays. Herein, we demonstrate simultaneous…”
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Spontaneous induction of the uniform lying helix alignment in bimesogenic liquid crystals for the flexoelectro-optic effect
Published in Applied physics letters (06-02-2012)“…Using in-plane electric fields, the electrical induction of the uniform lying helix (ULH) alignment in chiral nematic liquid crystals is reported. This process…”
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Emerging Applications of Liquid Crystals Based on Nanotechnology
Published in Materials (11-03-2014)“…Diverse functionalities of liquid crystals (LCs) offer enormous opportunities for their potential use in advanced mobile and smart displays, as well as novel…”
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Liquid crystal 'blue phases' with a wide temperature range
Published in Nature (18-08-2005)“…Liquid crystal 'blue phases' are highly fluid self-assembled three-dimensional cubic defect structures that exist over narrow temperature ranges in highly…”
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Introduction: new directions in liquid crystal science
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences (15-10-2006)“…While we are all familiar with liquid crystal displays, an industry currently worth more than $60 billion yr…”
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Electrically Tuneable Liquid Crystal Photonic Bandgaps
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (19-10-2009)“…Electrically controlled color tuning of the photonic bandgap and electrically induced multiple photonic bandgaps from a chiral nematic liquid crystal mixture…”
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Novel Nonvolatile Memory with Multibit Storage Based on a ZnO Nanowire Transistor
Published in Nano letters (10-11-2010)“…We demonstrate a room temperature processed ferroelectric (FE) nonvolatile memory based on a ZnO nanowire (NW) FET where the NW channel is coated with FE…”
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Paintable band-edge liquid crystal lasers
Published in Optics express (31-01-2011)“…In this paper we demonstrate photonic band-edge laser emission from emulsion-based polymer dispersed liquid crystals. The lasing medium consists of dye-doped…”
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Flexoelectric and elastic coefficients of odd and even homologous bimesogens
Published in Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics (03-01-2012)“…It is known that bimesogenic liquid crystals exhibit a marked "odd-even" effect in the flexoelastic ratio (the effective flexoelectric coefficient to the…”
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Photonics and lasing in liquid crystals
Published in Materials today (Kidlington, England) (01-07-2006)“…Lasers were invented some 40 years ago and are now used in a plethora of applications. Stable liquid crystals were discovered at about the same time, and are…”
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Electrically switchable random to photonic band-edge laser emission in chiral nematic liquid crystals
Published in Applied physics letters (13-02-2012)“…Using a chiral nematic liquid crystal with a negative dielectric anisotropy, it is possible to switch between band-edge laser emission and random laser…”
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Polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals for fast switching and high contrast electro-optic devices
Published in Applied physics letters (27-06-2011)“…A fast switching electro-optic device, based upon the in-plane addressing of very short pitch polymer stabilized chiral nematic liquid crystals, is presented…”
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High slope efficiency liquid crystal lasers
Published in Applied physics letters (20-12-2010)“…In this letter, we demonstrate high slope efficiency laser emission from reflective liquid crystal laser devices with a silicon backplane. Three different cell…”
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Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Mixture Integrated Into Optical Waveguides
Published in Journal of lightwave technology (01-04-2012)“…We report an on-chip integrated ferroelectric liquid crystal (FLC) waveguide structure suitable for telecommunication applications. Single gaps with different…”
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Increasing the flexoelastic ratio of liquid crystals using highly fluorinated ester-linked bimesogens
Published in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP (21-12-2012)“…We present experimental results on the bulk flexoelectric coefficients e and effective elastic coefficients K of non-symmetric bimesogenic liquid crystals when…”
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Low Molar Mass Organosiloxane Liquid Crystals for Telecommunication Applications
Published in Journal of lightwave technology (01-08-2012)“…Mixtures of two proprietary low molar mass organosiloxane liquid crystals were studied in order to improve their alignment and optimize their electro-optic…”
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High speed liquid crystal over silicon display based on the flexoelectro-optic effect
Published in Optics express (27-04-2009)“…One of the key technologies to evolve in the displays market in recent years is liquid crystal over silicon (LCOS) microdisplays. Traditional LCOS devices and…”
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Programmable ZnO nanowire transistors using switchable polarization of ferroelectric liquid crystal
Published in Applied physics letters (04-02-2013)“…We demonstrate modulations of electrical conductance and hysteresis behavior in ZnO nanowire transistors via electrically polarized switching of ferroelectric…”
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High contrast chiral nematic liquid crystal device using negative dielectric material
Published in Applied physics letters (09-11-2009)“…A liquid crystal device is demonstrated using a short-pitch (260 nm) chiral nematic with negative dielectric anisotropy. Due to dielectric coupling, an…”
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