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 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1995 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Engineering(all)