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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL E
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages 73-79Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2008-10353-0
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We show that diffraction of visible light from 2D dipolar nematic colloidal crystals can be tuned electrically. When the external electric field of similar to 1V/mu m is applied in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the 2D colloidal crystal, the induced strain is highly anisotropic, and the inter-colloidal spacing changes by as much as 20% along one direction and similar to 2% along the perpendicular one. Although the speed of response is in the range of several seconds, this novel mechanism could provide interesting photonic applications.
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