Abstract
We have shown liquid crystals to be members of the more general class of helicoidal bianisotropic mediums (HBMs) and have discussed physical realizations of HBMs as liquid crystals, cross-linked polymer networks and solid thin films. Solutions of the time-harmonic Maxwell postulates for axial propagation in a HBM have been derived in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a 4 × 4 matrix. We have given a procedure to obtain the response of a HBM slab to a normally incident plane wave and exemplified our analytical results by application to four mediums.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 419-437 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Proceedings of The Royal Society of London, Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences |
| Volume | 448 |
| Issue number | 1934 |
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| State | Published - Jan 1 1995 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Mathematics(all)
- Engineering(all)
- Physics and Astronomy(all)