Polymer-stabilized liquid crystal blue phases
@article{Kikuchi2002PolymerstabilizedLC, title={Polymer-stabilized liquid crystal blue phases}, author={Hirotsugu Kikuchi and Masayuki Yokota and Yoshiaki Hisakado and Huai Yang and Tisato Kajiyama}, journal={Nature Materials}, year={2002}, volume={1}, pages={64-68} }
Blue phases are types of liquid crystal phases that appear in a temperature range between a chiral nematic phase and an isotropic liquid phase. Because blue phases have a three-dimensional cubic structure with lattice periods of several hundred nanometres, they exhibit selective Bragg reflections in the range of visible light corresponding to the cubic lattice. From the viewpoint of applications, although blue phases are of interest for fast light modulators or tunable photonic crystals, the…
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