Exhibited by structurally chiral materials—such as Reusch piles, cholesteric liquid crystals
(CLCs), and chiral sculptured thin films (STFs)—due to their helical nonhomogeneity along a …

Sculptured thin films (STFs) are a class of nanoengineered materials with properties that can
be designed and realized in a controllable manner using physical vapor deposition. This text …

Morphological disorder is commonplace in bioworld structures, as exemplified by the
layered helical structures in the exocuticle in many beetle species. Circular-polarization …

Being an assembly of identical upright helices, a chiral sculptured thin film (CSTF) exhibits
the circular Bragg phenomenon and can therefore be used as a circular polarization filter in …

Axially excited chiral sculptured thin films (STFs) are shown to display the circular Bragg
phenomenon in more than one wavelength-regime, owing to the dispersion inherent in their …

Slanted chiral sculptured thin films (STFs) are introduced as nano-engineered materials that
are effectively periodic in two orthogonal directions. Their periodicities normal and parallel to …

The durations and average speeds of ultrashort optical pulses transmitted through chiral
sculptured thin films (STFs) were calculated using a finite-difference time-domain algorithm …

Using a numerical time-domain method, we studied the reflection and refraction of optical
narrow-extent pulses by linear and cubically nonlinear chiral sculptured thin films (STFs) …

We studied the durations and average speeds of videopulses transmitted through chiral
sculptured thin films using a finite‐difference algorithm. The chiral STF was either linear or …

We review our investigations concerning the propagation of ultrashort optical pulsed plane
waves across chiral sculptured thin films (STFs) in the time domain. The phenomenon of …