Liquid crystal based tunable photonic devices

• Main Author: Luo, Dan
• Other Authors: Sun Xiaowei
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/53691
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Liquid crystals (LCs), which was firstly discovered by Austrian botanical physiologist Friedrich Reinitzer in 1888, are substances with a phase of matter whose properties between those of a solid crystal and those of a conventional liquid. The property of responding to external electric field and op...