Ferrini, R.Martz, J.Zuppiroli, L.Wild, B.Zabelin, V.Dunbar, L. A.Houdré, R.Mulot, M.Anand, S.2007-04-032007-04-032007-04-03200610.1364/OL.31.001238https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/4281WOS:000237095600022Nematic liquid crystals are infiltrated into InP-based planar photonic crystals. Optical measurements as a function of temperature and polarization are used to study the average director field configuration in the nanometer-size holes: a planar equilibrium state is foundIII-V semiconductorsindium compoundsintegrated opticslight polarisationmolecular orientationnematic liquid crystalsphotonic crystalsplanar photonic crystalsliquid crystalsoptical characterizationmolecule orientationnematic liquid crystalsInP-based photonic crystalsoptical measurementsaverage director field configurationnanometer-size holesplanar equilibrium stateInPtext::journal::journal article::research article