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Ahn, Suk-kyun, Taylor H. Ware, Kyung Min Lee, Vincent P. Tondiglia, and Timothy J. White. “Photoinduced Topographical Feature Development IN Blueprinted AZOBENZENE‐FUNCTIONALIZED Liquid Crystalline Elastomers.” Wiley Online Library. Advanced Functional Material, 15 July 2016.

Ambulo, C. P., Carothers, K. J., Hollis, A., Limberg, H. N., Sun, L., Thrasher, C. J., McConney, M. E., & Godman, N. P. (2023). “Photo‐Crosslinkable Inorganic/Organic Sulfur Polymers”. Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 44(5), 2200798.

Aylo, R., P. P. Banerjee, S. A. Basun, and D. R. Evans. “Contribution of Diffusion and Photovoltaic Effect to Self-pumped Reflection Gratings in Photorefractive Lithium Niobate.” Proc. SPIE 8847, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications VII,, 25 Sept. 2013.

Baczkowski, M., D. H. Wang, D. H. Lee, K. M. Lee, M. Smith, T. J. White, and L. S. Tan. “Photomechanical Deformation of Azobenzene-functionalized …” ACS. ACS Macro Letters, 2017.

Banerjee, P. P., S. H. Buller, C. M. Liebig, S. A. Basun, G. Cook, D. R. Evans, P.-A. Blanche, J. Thomas, C. W. Christenson, and N. Peyghambarian. “Time Dynamics of Self-pumped Reflection Gratings in a Photorefractive Polymer.” AIP Publishing. American Institute of PhysicsAIP, 01 Jan. 2012.

Barnakov, Yury A., Ighodalo U. Idehenre, Sergey A. Basun, Trevor A. Tyson, and Dean R. Evans. “Uncovering the Mystery OF Ferroelectricity in Zero DIMENSIONAL NANOPARTICLES.” Nanoscale Advances. RSC, 01 Nov. 2018.

Basun, S. A., and D. R. Evans. “Identification of the SPECIFIC Fe Centers and Associated Defect Structure Responsible for Enhanced Dynamic Holography in Photorefractive Knb O3:fe.” NASA/ADS. Physical Review B, 10 Mar. 2016.

Basun, S. A., G. Cook, V. Yu. Reshetnyak, A. V. Glushchenko, and D. R. Evans. “Dipole Moment and Spontaneous Polarization of Ferroelectric Nanoparticles in a Nonpolar Fluid Suspension.” Physical Review B. American Physical Society, 05 July 2011.

Basun, S. A., L. E. Halliburton, and D. R. Evans. “Hyperbolic Decay of Photo-created Sb2+ Ions In SN2P2S6:SB Crystals Detected with Electron Paramagnetic Resonance.” AIP Publishing. Applied Physics Letter, 30 Jan. 2017.

Basun, Sergey, and Air Force Rsch Lab-Wpafb Team. “I Hyperbolic Decay of Photo-created Sb2+ Ions In SN2P2S6:SB Crystals Detected with Electron Paramagnetic Resonance.” NASA/ADS. APS March Meeting 2016, Mar. 2016.

Basun, Sergey, and Dean Evans. “Main Photorefractive Fe Center in Knbo3.” NASA/ADS. APS March Meeting 2014, Mar. 2014.

Basun, Sergey, Larry Halliburton, Nancy Giles, Alexander Grabar, and Dean Evans. “Photoactive Defect Centers in Photorefractive Sn2P2S6.” NASA/ADS. APS March Meeting 2017, Mar. 2017.

Beh, Eugene S., Sergey A. Basun, Xiaofeng Feng, Ighodalo U. Idehenre, Dean R. Evans, and Matthew W. Kanan. “Molecular Catalysis at Polarized Interfaces Created by Ferroelectric Batio3.” Chemical Science. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 06 Feb. 2017.

Brant, A. T., L. E. Halliburton, N. C. Giles, S. A. Basun, A. A. Graber, and D. R. Evans. “Intrinsic Small Polarons (sn³⁺ Ions) in Photorefractive Sn₂p₂s₆ Crystals.” Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter : An Institute of Physics Journal. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 19 Apr. 2013.

Brant, A. T., L. E. Halliburton, S. A. Basun, A. A. Grabar, S. G. Odoulov, A. Shumelyuk, N. C. Giles, and D. R. Evans. “Photoinduced EPR Study of Sb2+ Ions in Photorefractive Sn2P2S6 Crystals.” Physical Review B. American Physical Society, 10 Oct. 2012.

Brant, A. T., N. C. Giles, L. E. Halliburton, S. A. Basun, A. A. Grabar, and D. R. Evans. “Intrinsic Small Polarons (sn³⁺ Ions) in Photorefractive Sn₂p₂s₆ Crystals.” Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter : An Institute of Physics Journal. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 22 May 2013.

Budhani, R. C., Sergey A. Basun, Michael E. McConney, Dean R. Evans, Michael R. Page, and Brandon M. Howe. “Temperature Dependent Resonant Microwave Absorption in Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Epitaxial Films of a Spinel Ferrite.” NASA/ADS. Journal of Applied Physics, 2019.

Busch, R., Sun, L., Austin, D., Jiang, J., Miesle, P., Susner, M. A., Conner, B. S., Jawaid, A., Becks, S. T., Mahalingam, K., Velez, M. A., Torsi, R., Robinson, J. A., Rao, R., Glavin, N. R., Vaia, R. A., Pachter, R., Kennedy, W. J., Vernon, J. P., & Stevenson, P. R. (2023). “Exfoliation procedure-dependent optical properties of solution deposited MoS2 films”. Npj 2D Materials and Applications, 7(1).

Cheng, Liang, Yanira Torres, Kyung Min Lee, Amber J. McClung, Jeffery Baur, Timothy J. White, and William S. Oates. “Photomechanical Bending Mechanics of Polydomain Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer NETWORK FILMS.” AIP Publishing. American Institute of Physics, 01 July 2012.

Evans, D. R., S. A. Basun, G. Cook, I. P. Pinkevych, and V. Yu. Reshetnyak. “Electric Field Interactions and Aggregation Dynamics of Ferroelectric Nanoparticles in Isotropic Fluid Suspensions.” Physical Review B. American Physical Society, 21 Nov. 2011.

Evans, Dean R., Gary Cook, Victor Yu. Reshetnyak, Carl M. Liebig, Sergey A. Basun, and Partha P. Banerjee. “Inorganic-Organic Photorefractive Hybrids.” NASA/ADS. Photorefractive Organic Materials and Applications, 2016.

Evans, Dean, Sergey Basun, Carl Liebig, and Ighodalo Idehenre. “Ferroelectric Nanoparticles and Their Use in Disparate Optical Devices.” NASA/ADS. APS March Meeting 2014, Mar. 2014.

Evans, Dean, Sergey Basun, Larry Halliburton, Alexander Grabar, Yaroslav Skrypka, Alexandr Shumelyuk, and Serguey Odoulov. “Absorption and Enhanced Photorefractive Beam Fanning In Sn2p2s6:sb.” NASA/ADS. APS March Meeting 2017, Mar. 2017.

Flynn, J. J., Marsh, Z. M., Krein, D. M., Wolf, S. M., Haley, J. E., Vasquez, E. S., Cooper, T. M., Godman, N. P., & Grusenmeyer, T. A. (2022). Identification of lithocholic acid as a molecular glass host for room … Retrieved January 18, 2023

Golden, E. M., S. A. Basun, A. A. Grabar, I. M. Stoika, N. C. Giles, D. R. Evans, and L. E. Halliburton. “Sulfur Vacancies in Photorefractive Sn2p2s6 Crystals.” AIP Publishing. Journal of Applied Physics, 28 Dec. 2014.

Golden, E. M., S. A. Basun, D. R. Evans, A. A. Grabar, I. M. Stoika, N. C. Giles, and L. E. Halliburton. “Sn Vacancies in Photorefractive Sn2p2s6 Crystals: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of an Optically Active Hole Trap.” AIP Publishing. Journal of Applied Physics, 07 Oct. 2016.

Gustafson, T. D., E. M. Golden, E. M. Scherrer, N. C. Giles, A. A. Grabar, S. A. Basun, D. R. Evans, J. E. Slagle, and L. E. Halliburton. “Photoinduced Trapping of Charge at Sulfur Vacancies and Copper Ions in Photorefractive Sn2p2s6 Crystals.” AIP Publishing. Journal of Applied Physics, 28 Feb. 2021.

Han, Hyemi, Yoo Jin Lee, Jihoon Kyhm, Jae Seung Jeong, Jae-Hoon Han, Min Kyu Yang, Kyung Min Lee, Yeongyu Choi, Tae-Hoon Yoon, Hyunsu Ju, Suk-kyun Ahn, and Jung Ah Lim. “High‐Performance Circularly Polarized Light‐Sensing Near‐infrared ORGANIC Phototransistors for Optoelectronic Cryptographic Primitives.” Wiley Online Library. Advanced Functional Material, 22 Sept. 2020.

Hardin, C. L., Y. Kodera, S. A. Basun, D. R. Evans, and J. E. Garay. “Transparent, Luminescent Terbium Doped Zirconia: Development of Optical-structural Ceramics with Integrated Temperature Measurement Functionalities.” Optical Materials Express. Optical Society of America, 31 May 2013.

Harper, Eric S., Eleanor J. Coyle, Jonathan P. Vernon, and Matthew S. Mills. “Inverse Design of Broadband Highly Reflective Metasurfaces Using Neural Networks.” Physical Review B. American Physical Society, 04 May 2020.

Hicks, Sarah, Kyung Min Lee, Michael E. McConney, Nelson Tabiryan, and Timothy J. Bunning. “Rewriting Bulk Photoalignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals in a Two-step Exposure System.” International Society for Optics and Photonics. Proc. SPIE 11807, Liquid Crystals XXV, 02 Aug. 2021.

Hicks, Sarah, Michael E. McConney, Kyung Min Lee, Nelson V. Tabirian, Timothy J. Bunning, and Elizabeth Bernhardt. “Bulk Photoalignment of Nematic Liquid Crystals by Addition of Azobenzene Components.” International Society for Optics and Photonics. Proc. SPIE 11707, Emerging Liquid Crystal Technologies XVI, 05 Mar. 2021.

Idehenre, I. U., and M. S. Mills. “Multi-directional Beam Steering Using Diffractive Neural Networks.” Optics Express. Optical Society of America, 18 Aug. 2020.

Idehenre, I. U., Harper, E. S., & Mills, M. S. (2022, February 18). Diffractive deep neural network adjoint assist or (DNA)2 : a fast and efficient nonlinear diffractive neural network implementation. Optica Publishing Group. Retrieved December 30, 2022

Idehenre, I. U., Y. A. Barnakov, S. A. Basun, and D. R. Evans. “Spectroscopic Studies of the Effects of Mechanochemical Synthesis on BATIO3 Nanocolloids Prepared USING High-energy Ball-milling.” AIP Publishing. Journal of Applied Physics, 28 Oct. 2018.

Jewell, S A, and J R Sambles. “Optical Imaging of the Effect of In-plane Fields on Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. U.S. National Library of Medicine, July 2008. Cited by 11

Kananen, B. E., E. M. Golden, S. A. Basun, D. R. Evans, A. A. Grabar, I. M. Stoika, J. W. McClory, N. C. Giles, and L. E. Halliburton. “Dual Role of Sb Ions as Electron Traps and Hole Traps in Photorefractive Sn2P2S6 Crystals.” Optical Materials Express. Optical Society of America, 01 Dec. 2016.

Kim, D. Y., C. Nah, S. W. Kang, S. H. Lee, K. M. Lee, T. J. White, and K. W. Jeong. “Flexible Standing and Circular-Polarizing Chirophotonic Photonic Crystal Reflectors: Photo-Polymerization of Helical Superstructures.” ACS. ACS Nano, 2016.

Kim, Dae-Yoon, Kyung Min Lee, Timothy J. White, and Kwang-Un Jeong. “Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Paints: In SITU Photopolymerization of Helicoidally STACKED Multilayer Nanostructures for Flexible Broadband Mirrors.” Nature News. Nature Publishing Group, 09 Nov. 2018.

Koerner, Hilmar, Robert J. Strong, Matthew L. Smith, David H. Wang, Loon-Seng Tan, Kyung Min Lee, Timothy J. White, and Richard A. Vaia. “Polymer Design for High Temperature Shape Memory: Low Crosslink Density Polyimides.” Polymer. Elsevier, 08 Nov. 2012.

Koo, Jahyeon, Junhwa Jang, Seok-In Lim, Mintaek Oh, Kyung Min Lee, Michael E. McConney, Luciano De Sio, Dae-Yoon Kim, and Kwang-Un Jeong. “The Transfer and Amplification of Cyanostilbene Molecular Function to Advanced Flexible Optical Paints through Self-crosslinkable Side-chain Liquid Crystal Polysiloxanes.” Materials Horizons. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 11 Mar. 2021.

Kowalski, B. A., V. P. Tondiglia, K. M. Lee, D. R. Evans, T. J. White, and M. S. Mills. “Spectrally Tunable Chiral BRAGG Reflectors for On-demand BEAM Generation.” Optics Express. Optical Society of America, 29 May 2019.

Lee K.M.; Rumi M; Mills MS; Reshetnyak V; Evans DR; Bunning TJ; .McConney ME;. “A Different Perspective on Cholesteric Liquid Crystals Reveals Unique Color and Polarization Changes.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2020.

Lee, K. M., Koerner, H., Wang, D. H., Tan, L-S., White, T. J., Vaia, R. A. “Tailoring the Photomechanical Response of Azobenzene-Functionalized Polyimides by Physical Aging.” Macromolecules, 2012.

Lee, K. M., T. H. Ware, V. P. Tondiglia, M. McBride, X. Xinpeng, C. N. Browning, and T. J. White. “Initiatorless Photopolymerization of Liquid Crystal Monomers.” ACS. Applied Material Interfaces, 2016.

Lee, K. M., Tondiglia, V. P., Lee, T., Smalyukh, I. I., White, T. J. “Electrically-induced Panchromatic Colour Tunability in Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.” Journal of Material Chemical C, 2015.

Lee, K. M., Tondiglia, V. P., White, T. J. “Bistable Switching Behavior OF ANODIC Porous ALUMINA.” MRS Communications, 2015.

Lee, K. M., V. P. Tondiglia, N. P. Godman, T. J. White, Bunning, and M. E. McConney. “Reconfigurable Reflective Colors in Holographically Patterned Liquid Crystal Gels.” ACS Publications. ACS Photonics, 2020.

Lee, K. M., V. Reshetnvak, M. E. McConney, E. P. Crenshaw, L. De Sio, D. Y. Jeong, and K. W. Jeong. “Higher Order Bragg Reflection Colors in Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.” Advanced Photonics, 2021.

Lee, K. M., Wang, D. H., Koerner, H., Vaia, R. A., Tan, L-S., White, T. J. “Enhancement of Photogenerated Stress through the Synthesis and Employment of Azobenzene-Functionalized Polyimides.” Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2012.

Lee, K. M., White, T. J. “Photochemical Mechanism and Photothermal Considerations in the Mechanical Response of Monodomain, Azobenzene-Functionalized Liquid-Crystal Polymer Networks.” Macromolecules, 2012.

Lee, K.M., Koerner, H., Vaia, R. A., Bunning, T. J., White, T. J. “Relationship between the Photomechanical Response and the Thermomechanical Properties of Azobenzene Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks.” Macromolecules, 2010.

Lee, Kyung M., Timothy J. Bunning, Timothy J. White, Michael E. McConney, and Nicholas P. Godman. “Effect of Ion Concentration on The Electro-optic Response in POLYMER-STABILIZED Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.” Crystals. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 23 Dec. 2020.

Lee, Kyung Min, and Timothy J. White. “Photomechanical Response of Composite Structures Built FROM Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks.” MDPI. Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 02 Sept. 2011.

Lee, Kyung Min, Brandon M. Lynch, Paul Luchette, and Timothy J. White. “Photomechanical Effects in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks Prepared with M‐fluoroazobenzene.” Wiley Online Library. Journal Polymer Science, 25 Dec. 2013.

Lee, Kyung Min, David H. Wang, Hilmar Koerner, Richard A. Vaia, Loon-Seng Tan, and Timothy J. White. “Photomechanical Response of Pre‐strained Azobenzene‐Functionalized Polyimide Materials.” Wiley Online Library. Macromolecular Chemical Physics, 04 Oct. 2012.

Lee, Kyung Min, Ecklin P. Crenshaw, Mariacristina Rumi, Timothy J. White, Timothy J. Bunning, and Michael E. McConney. “Effect of Cell Thickness on the Electro-optic Response of Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy.” MDPI. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 06 Feb. 2020.

Lee, Kyung Min, Hilmar Koerner, Richard A. Vaia, Timothy J. Bunning, and Timothy J. White. “Light-activated Shape Memory of Glassy, Azobenzene Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks.” Soft Matter. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 25 Mar. 2011.

Lee, Kyung Min, Matthew L. Smith, Hilmar Koerner, Nelson Tabiryan, Richard A. Vaia, Timothy J. Bunning, and Timothy J. White. “Photodriven, Flexural–Torsional Oscillation of Glassy Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks.” Wiley Online Library. Advanced Functional Materials, 07 June 2011.

Lee, Kyung Min, Nelson V. Tabiryan, Timothy J. Bunning, and Timothy J. White. “Photomechanical Mechanism And Structure-property Considerations in the Generation OF Photomechanical Work in Glassy, Azobenzene Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks.” Journal of Materials Chemistry. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 09 Nov. 2011.

Lee, Kyung Min, Timothy J. Bunning, and Timothy J. White. “Autonomous, Hands‐free Shape Memory in Glassy, Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks.” Wiley Online Library. Advanced Materials, 25 Apr. 2012.

Lee, Kyung Min, Vincent P Tondiglia, and Timothy J White. “Electrically Reconfigurable Liquid Crystalline Mirrors.” ACS Omega. American Chemical Society, 24 Apr. 2018.

Lee, Kyung Min, Vincent P. Tondiglia, and Timothy J. White. “Photosensitivity of REFLECTION Notch Tuning and Broadening in Polymer STABILIZED Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.” Soft Matter. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 23 Nov. 2015.

Lee, Kyung Min, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Mariacristina Rumi, and Timothy J. White. “Time‐dependent Deformation of Structurally Chiral Polymer Networks in Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.” Wiley Online Library. Journal of Polymer Science, 07 May 2018.

Lenyk, C. A., T. D. Gustafson, S. A. Basun, L. E. Halliburton, and N. C. Giles. “Experimental Determination of the (0/−) Level for Mg Acceptors in β-ga2o3 Crystals.” AIP Publishing. Applied Physical Letter, 06 Apr. 2020.

Li, Quan, Albert P. H. J. Schenning, and Timothy J. Bunning. “Light‐responsive Smart Soft Matter Technologies.” Wiley Online Library. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 19 Aug. 2019.

Liaros, N., Gutierrez Razo, S. A., Thum, M. D., Ogden, H. M., Zeppuhar, A. N., Wolf, S., Baldacchini, T., Kelley, M. J., Peterson, J. S., Falvey, D. E., Mullin, A. S., & Fourkas, J. T. (2022, January 21). Elucidating complex triplet-state dynamics in the model system isopropylthioxanthone. Retrieved January 18, 2023

Liebig, C. M., N. V. Tabiryan, S. A. Basun, I. U. Ighodalo, V. Y. Reshetnyak, and D. R. Evans. “Gain Dynamics in Liquid Crystal Photorefractive Hybrids.” NASA/ADS. Proc. SPIE 9200, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications VIII, 5 Sept. 2014.

Liebig, C. M., S. H. Buller, P. P. Banerjee, S. A. Basun, P.-A. Blanche, J. Thomas, C. W. Christenson, N. Peyghambarian, and D. R. Evans. “Achieving Enhanced Gain in Photorefractive Polymers by Eliminating Electron Contributions Using Large Bias Fields.” Optics Express. Optical Society of America, 04 Dec. 2013.

Liebig, C., S. Basun, S. Buller, Dean R. Evans, P. Banerjee, P. Blanche, C. Christenson, N. Peyghambarian, and Jayan Thomas. “[Pdf] Enhanced Gain Dynamics in Photorefractive Polymers: Semantic Scholar.” Undefined. Proc. SPIE 8847, Photonic Fiber and Crystal Devices: Advances in Materials and Innovations in Device Applications VII, 25 Sept. 2013.

Liebig, Carl, Steven Buller, Partha Banerjee, Sergey Basun, Pierre Blanche, Jayan Thomas, Corey Christenson, Nasser Peyghambarian, and Dean Evans. “Gain Enhancement in Photorefractive Polymers.” NASA/ADS. APS March Meeting 2014, Mar. 2014.

McConney, Michael E, Angel Martinez, Vincent P Tondiglia, Kyung Min Lee, Derrick Langley, Ivan I Smalyukh, and Timothy J White. “Topography from Topology: Photoinduced Surface Features Generated in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks.” Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). U.S. National Library of Medicine, 6 Nov. 2013.

McConney, Michael E., Mariacristina Rumi, Nicholas P. Godman, Urice N. Tohgha, and Timothy J. Bunning. “Photoresponsive Structural Color in Liquid Crystalline Materials.” Advanced Optical Materials. 2019.

McConney, Michael E., Vincent P. Tondiglia, Lalgudi V. Natarajan, Kyung Min Lee, Timothy J. White, and Timothy J. Bunning. “Electrically Induced Color Changes in Polymer‐stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.” Wiley Online Library. Advanced Optical Materials, 02 May 2013. Cited by 64

Mihaly, J. J., Wolf, S. M., Phillips, A. T., Mam, S., Yung, Z., Haley, J. E., Zeller, M., de Le Harpe, K., Holt, E., Grusenmeyer, T. A., Collins, S., & Gray, T. G. (2022, September 23). Synthetically tunable white-, green-, and yellow-green-light emission in Dual-Luminescent Gold(I) Complexes Bearing a Diphenylamino-2,7-fluorenyl Moiety. Retrieved January 18, 2023

Mihaly, Joseph J., Alexis T. Phillips, Jacob T. Malloy, Zachary M. Marsh, Matthias Zeller, Joy E. Haley, Kimberly De La Harpe, Tod A. Grusenmeyer, and Thomas G. Gray. “Synthesis and Photophysical Properties Of Laterally Asymmetric Digold(I) ALKYNYLS And Triazolyl: ANCILLARY Ligand and ORGANIC Functionality Dictate Excited-State Dynamics.” Organometallics, 7 Feb. 2020.

Min Lee K;Tondiglia VP;Godman NP;Middleton CM;White TJ;. “Blue-shifting Tuning of the Selective Reflection of Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.” Soft Matter. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2017.

Nemati, Hossein, Shiyi Liu, Alireza Moheghi, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Kyung Min Lee, Timothy J. Bunning, and Deng-Ke Yang. “Enhanced Reflection Band Broadening in Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy.” Journal of Molecular Liquids. Elsevier, 13 Feb. 2018.

Nemati, Hossein, Shiyi Liu, Rafael S. Zola, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Kyung Min Lee, Timothy White, Timothy Bunning, and Deng-Ke Yang. “Mechanism of Electrically Induced Photonic Band Gap Broadening in Polymer Stabilized Cholesteric Liquid Crystals with Negative Dielectric Anisotropies.” Soft Matter. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 11 Dec. 2014.

Penilla, E. H., C. L. Hardin, Y. Kodera, S. A. Basun, D. R. Evans, and J. E. Garay. “The Role of Scattering and Absorption on the Optical Properties of Birefringent Polycrystalline Ceramics: Modeling and Experiments on Ruby (cr:al2o3).” AIP Publishing. Journal of Applied Physics, 14 Jan. 2016.

Rumi M;Cazzell SA;Kosa T;Sukhomlinova L;Taheri B;White TJ;Bunning TJ;. “Quantification of Photoinduced Order Increase in Liquid Crystals with Naphthopyran Guests.” Physical Review. E. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2016.

Rumi, M.; Bunning, T. J.; De Sio, L. “Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals.” Soft Matter. 2019.

Rumi, M.; Tondiglia, V. P.; Natarajan, L. V.; White, T. J.; Bunning, T. J. “Local Optical Spectra and Texture for Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystals in Cells with Interdigitated Electrodes.” Taylor & Francis. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 2014.

Rumi, M.; White, T. J.; Bunning, T. J. “Phototropic Guest-host Liquid Crystal Systems: Environmental Effect on Naphthopyrans Kinetics.” ACS. Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2016.

Rumi, Mariacristina, and Timothy J. Bunning. “Polymers in Photonics: Controlling Information by Manipulating Light.” NASA/ADS. Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 1 Feb. 2014.

Rumi, Mariacristina, Timothy J. Bunning, and Timothy J. White. “Polymer Stabilization of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals in the Oblique Helicoidal State.” Soft Matter. The Royal Society of Chemistry, 04 Sept. 2018.

Rumi, Mariacristina, Timothy J. White, and Timothy J. Bunning. “Reflection Spectra of Distorted Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Structures in Cells with Interdigitated Electrodes.” Optics Express. Optical Society of America, 26 June 2014.

Rumi, Mariacristina, Vincent P Tondiglia, Lalgudi V Natarajan, Timothy J White, and Timothy J Bunning. “Non-uniform Helix Unwinding of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals in Cells with Interdigitated Electrodes.” Chemphyschem : A European Journal of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 19 May 2014.

Scherrer, E. M., N. C. Giles, T. E. R. Dodson, A. A. Grabar, D. R. Evans, S. A. Basun, J. E. Slagle, and L. E. Halliburton. “Charge Trapping by Iodine Ions in Photorefractive Sn2p2s6 Crystals.” AIP Publishing. Journal of Chemical Physics, 14 Oct. 2020.

Shankar, M. Ravi, Matthew L. Smith, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Kyung Min Lee, Michael E. McConney, David H. Wang, Loon-Seng Tan, and Timothy J. White. “Contactless, Photoinitiated SNAP-THROUGH in Azobenzene-functionalized Polymers.” PNAS. National Academy of Sciences, 19 Nov. 2013.

Shin, Jungwoo, Jaeuk Sung, Minjee Kang, Xu Xie, Byeongdu Lee, Kyung Min Lee, Timothy J. White, Cecilia Leal, Nancy R. Sottos, Paul V. Braun, and David G. Cahill. “Light-triggered Thermal Conductivity Switching in Azobenzene Polymers.” PNAS. National Academy of Sciences, 26 Mar. 2019.

Shumelyuk, A., Y. Skrypka, S. Odoulov, S. A. Basun, L. E. Halliburton, and D. R. Evans. “Time Resolved NONLINEAR Response of Sn2P2S6Sb to Nanosecond Pulse Excitation.” NASA/ADS. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, July 2017.

Shumelyuk, O. M., A. Yu. Volkov, Ya. M. Skrypka, L. E. Halliburton, N. C. Giles, C. A. Lenyk, S. A. Basun, A. A. Grabar, Yu. M. Vysochansky, S. G. Odoulov, and D. R. Evans. “Near-infrared-sensitive Photorefractive Sn2p2s6 Crystals Grown by THE Bridgman Method.” AIP Publishing. Journal of Applied Physics, 14 Mar. 2020.

Skrypka, Yaroslav, Alexandr Shumelyuk, Serguey Odoulov, Sergey Basun, and Dean Evans. “Light Induced Absorption and Optical Sensitizing of Sn2p2s6:sb.” Optics Communications. Optics Communications Volume 356, 07 Aug. 2015.

Skrypka, Yaroslav, Alexandr Shumelyuk, Serguey Odoulov, Sergey Basun, and Dean R. Evans. “Temporal Dynamics OF Two-beam Coupling and the Origin of Compensation Photorefractive Gratings IN SN2P2S6:SB.” Optical Materials Express. Optical Society of America, 29 Mar. 2017.

Smith, M., S. Malak, J. Jung, Y. J. Yoon, C. H. Lin, S. Kim, K. M. Lee, T. J. White, T. J. Bunning, Z. Lin, and V. Tsukruk. “Robust, Uniform, and Highly Emissive Quantum Dot Polymer Films and Patterns Using Thiol-ene Chemistry.” ACS. ACS Applied Material Interfaces, 2017.

Smith, Matthew L, Kyung Min Lee, Timothy J White, and Richard A Vaia. “Design of Polarization-dependent, Flexural-torsional Deformation in Photo Responsive Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks.” Soft Matter. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 7 Mar. 2014.

Sun, Lirong, John G. Jones, John T. Grant, Neil R. Murphy, C. V. Ramana, Kurt G. Eyink, Jonathan P. Vernon, and Peter R. Stevenson. “Nanoscale-thick Thin Films of High-density HFO2 for Bulk-like Optical Responses.” ACS Publications. 30 Sept. 2021. Web. 22 Oct. 2021.

Thompson, J. R., J. A. Burrow, P. J. Shah, J. Slagle, E. S. Harper, A. Van Rynbach, I. Agha, and M. S. Mills. “Artificial Neural Network Discovery of a Switchable Metasurface Reflector.” Optics Express. Optical Society of America, 05 Aug. 2020.

Thompson, Jonathan R., Heidi D. Nelson-Quillin, Eleanor J. Coyle, Jonathan P. Vernon, Eric S. Harper, and Matthew S. Mills. “Particle Swarm Optimization of Polymer-embedded Broadband Metasurface Reflectors.” Optics Express. Optical Society of America, 13 Dec. 2021. Web. 13 Dec. 2021.

Tohgha UN;Alvino EL;Jarnagin CC;Iacono ST;Godman NP;. “Electrowetting Behavior and DIGITAL Microfluidic Applications of Fluorescent, Polymer-Encapsulated Quantum Dot Nanofluids.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2019.

Tohgha, U. N., Watson, A. M., & Godman, N. P. (2022, April 9). Low voltage electrowetting of non-aqueous fluorescent quantum dot nanofluids. Journal of Molecular Liquids. Retrieved April 14, 2022

Tohgha, Urice N., Alexander M. Watson, and Nicholas P. Godman. “Tuning the Electrowetting Behavior of Quantum Dot Nanofluids.” Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021.

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All-optical deformation and recovery of complex topographical features is demonstrated within elastic sheets composed of main-chain type azobenzene-functionalized liquid crystalline elastomers (azo-LCEs). The azo-LCEs are synthesized via an orthogonal, two-step reaction between commercially available LC monomers and n-butylamine. By employing surface alignment, the local orientation of the nematic director is spatially complex (“blueprinted”). Exposing the blueprinted LCE films to light as an actinic stimulus generates a photomechanical response which yields reversible shape changes between 2D and 3D shapes. The deformation of azo-LCEs strongly depends on the azobenzene concentration as well as the network structure (i.e., crosslink density). Blueprinting complex director profiles within azo-LCEs yield reconfigurable elastic sheets that can be addressed both remotely and selectively which may have benefit in a variety of applications in aerospace, medicine, and optics.

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Inverse vulcanization techniques are used to fabricate thermodynamically stable, sulfur polymers. Sulfur-based polymers exhibit higher refractive indices and improved transparency in the mid-wave infrared region compared with most organic polymers. Herein, the postsynthetic modification of sulfur polymers created via inverse vulcanization to generate novel, inorganic/organic photoresists is discussed. Amine-containing sulfur resins are postfunctionalized with cross-linkable alkynes. The sulfur-based materials undergo rapid photo-crosslinking to generate patternable films within 10 min under UV irradiation (365 nm). The development of these resins enables sulfur polymers to be utilized in processes where spatial and hierarchical control is necessary. The generation of this class of materials also expands on sulfur-based organic polymer systems with optical applications.

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The transfer matrix method is used to analyze induced reflection gratings in photorefractive iron doped lithium niobate in a self-pumped configuration. The optical field distribution and the induced refractive index distributions inside the material are computed, and the overall transmission and reflection are determined for different orientations of the c-axis. Numerical simulations are compared with experimental results.