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Crystals, Volume 9, Issue 6

June 2019 - 48 articles

Cover Story: The recent advances in liquid crystal (LC) beam steering devices are reviewed. We first describe the general operation principles of LC beam steerers. Next, we delve into different kinds of beam steering devices and propose a new LC‐cladding waveguide beam steerer using resistive electrodes. Finally, two future challenges are addressed: fast-response beam steering for mid‐wave infrared (MWIR), and large‐angle, high‐efficiency, and continuous beam steering by device hybridization. With new low‐loss polymer network LCs, fast-response transmission‐type optical phased arrays for MWIR can be achieved. View this paper
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Articles (48)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,839 Views
10 Pages

12 June 2019

Liquid crystals (LCs) can always reflect variable optical properties in a broad terahertz (THz) band under external electric or magnetic fields. Based on the measurements of these varying properties, we can realize electric and magnetic field sensing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,454 Views
11 Pages

Novel Cerium Bisphosphinate Coordination Polymer and Unconventional Metal–Organic Framework

  • Jan Rohlíček,
  • Daniel Bůžek,
  • Petr Brázda,
  • Libor Kobera,
  • Jan Hynek,
  • Jiří Brus,
  • Kamil Lang and
  • Jan Demel

12 June 2019

The first Ce(III)-based coordination polymer ICR-9 (ICR stands for Inorganic Chemistry Řež), with the formula Ce2(C8H10P2O4)3, containing ditopic phenylene-1,4-bis(methylphosphinic acid) linker, was synthetized under solvothermal conditions. The crys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,617 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Rare-Earth Element Oxides on Diamond Crystallization in Mg-Based Systems

  • Yuri N. Palyanov,
  • Yuri M. Borzdov,
  • Alexander F. Khokhryakov and
  • Igor N. Kupriyanov

11 June 2019

Diamond crystallization in Mg-R2O3-C systems (R = Nd, Sm, Eu, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, and Yb) was studied at 7.8 GPa and 1800 °C. It was found that rare-earth oxide additives in an amount of 10 wt % did not significantly affect both the degree of gra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,418 Views
18 Pages

Platonic Relationships in Metal Phosphonate Chemistry: Ionic Metal Phosphonates

  • Konstantinos Xanthopoulos,
  • Zafeiria Anagnostou,
  • Sophocles Chalkiadakis,
  • Duane Choquesillo-Lazarte,
  • Gellert Mezei,
  • Jan K. Zaręba,
  • Jerzy Zoń and
  • Konstantinos D. Demadis

11 June 2019

Phosphonate ligands demonstrate strong affinity for metal ions. However, there are several cases where the phosphonate is found non-coordinated to the metal ion. Such compounds could be characterized as salts, since the interactions involved are ioni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,752 Views
14 Pages

8 June 2019

Linking the microstructure to the mechanical properties is a key feature in the design and assessment of the durability of semi-crystalline polymers. This paper addresses the importance of a particular architecture inside spherulites. The use of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,540 Views
16 Pages

Elasticity of Phases in Fe-Al-Ti Superalloys: Impact of Atomic Order and Anti-Phase Boundaries

  • Martin Friák,
  • Vilma Buršíková,
  • Naděžda Pizúrová,
  • Jana Pavlů,
  • Yvonna Jirásková,
  • Vojtěch Homola,
  • Ivana Miháliková,
  • Anton Slávik,
  • David Holec and
  • Monika Všianská
  • + 5 authors

8 June 2019

We combine theoretical and experimental tools to study elastic properties of Fe-Al-Ti superalloys. Focusing on samples with chemical composition Fe71Al22Ti7, we use transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to detect their two-phase superalloy nano-stru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,448 Views
10 Pages

Luminescent and Scintillation Properties of CeAlO3 Crystals and Phase-Separated CeAlO3/CeAl11O18 Metamaterials

  • Oleg Sidletskiy,
  • Pavlo Arhipov,
  • Serhii Tkachenko,
  • Iaroslav Gerasymov,
  • Georgy Trushkovsky,
  • Tetyana Zorenko,
  • Yuriy Zorenko,
  • Pavel Mateychenko,
  • Anna Puzan and
  • Wojciech Gieszczyk
  • + 1 author

6 June 2019

This work is dedicated to the growth process and investigation of luminescent and scintillation properties of CeAlO3 single crystals and CeAlO3/CeAl11O18 metamaterials under e-beam and α-particles excitation. It has been shown that cathodolumin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,327 Views
14 Pages

X-ray Structure Refinement and Vibrational Spectroscopy of Metavauxite FeAl2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O

  • Giancarlo Della Ventura,
  • Francesco Capitelli,
  • Giancarlo Capitani,
  • Gennaro Ventruti and
  • Alessandro Monno

6 June 2019

In this paper, we provide a crystal-chemical investigation of metavauxite, ideally FeAl2(PO4)2(OH)2·8H2O, from Llallagua (Bolivia) by using a multi-methodological approach based on EDS microchemical analysis, single crystal X-ray diffraction,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,593 Views
11 Pages

5 June 2019

Hexagonal pyramid-like InN nanocolumns were grown on Si(111) substrates via radio-frequency (RF) metal–organic molecular beam epitaxy (MOMBE) together with a substrate nitridation process. The metal–organic precursor served as a group-III...

  • Review
  • Open Access
166 Citations
16,675 Views
24 Pages

Liquid Crystal Beam Steering Devices: Principles, Recent Advances, and Future Developments

  • Ziqian He,
  • Fangwang Gou,
  • Ran Chen,
  • Kun Yin,
  • Tao Zhan and
  • Shin-Tson Wu

5 June 2019

Continuous, wide field-of-view, high-efficiency, and fast-response beam steering devices are desirable in a plethora of applications. Liquid crystals (LCs)—soft, bi-refringent, and self-assembled materials which respond to various external stim...

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