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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
Porous silicon (PS) based devices are nowadays under an intense and widespread investigation in the optoelectronic and sensing fields. Recently, the range of possible applications has been widened by the use of the liquid crystals (LCs), which can be infiltrated in the PS sponge-like structure. The large changes of the optical properties, as exhibited by LCs under the action of electrical or thermal fields, allow developing a new family of optical devices like tunable PS based multilayer mirrors, microcavities and optical filters.In this work, we have optically characterized the LC-PS heterogeneous composite as a guest-host system by means of the variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry (VASE). A PS layer, 450 nm thick, has been infiltrated with the nematic LC 5CB, and the main optical parameters, anisotropic refractive indices and thickness of both materials, have been estimated below and above the isotropic …
Publisher: 
Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 
26 Mar 2007
Authors: 

A Marino, G Abbate, V Tkachenko, I Rea, L De Stefano, M Giocondo

Biblio References: 
Volume: 465 Issue: 1 Pages: 359-370
Origin: 
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals