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High contrast switching of transmission due to electrohydrodynamic effect in stacked thin systems of liquid crystals

Serak et al., 2016

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2036235094473518972
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Serak S
Hrozhyk U
Hwang J
Tabiryan N
Steeves D
Kimball B
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Applied Optics

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We study the opportunity of using electrohydrodynamic instabilities in a nematic liquid crystal mixture with negative dielectric anisotropy for controlling laser beams. Switching between naturally transparent and diffuse light scattering states is achieved by application of …
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