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Y. R. Shen
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 498
Citations - 38903
Y. R. Shen is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Liquid crystal & Monolayer. The author has an hindex of 98, co-authored 476 publications receiving 37313 citations. Previous affiliations of Y. R. Shen include University of Paris & Harvard University.
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Observation of magnetic-field-induced first-order optical Fréedericksz transition in a nematic film.
TL;DR: In this paper, it was demonstrated that an applied dc magnetic field can transform the optical Freedericksz transition in a nematic film from second order to first order, in good agreement with theoretical predictions.
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Phase‐matched far‐infrared generation by optical mixing of dye laser beams
TL;DR: In this article, a dual-frequency dye laser system was used to generate continuously tunable far-infrared radiation over the frequency range from 20 to 190 cm−1, where both collinear (forward and backward) and non-collinear phase matching in LiNbO3 was investigated.
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Study of Phase-Matched Normal and Umklapp Third-Harmonic- Generation Processes in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals
TL;DR: In this paper, the phase matching of optical third-harmonic generation can be achieved in a cholesteric liquid crystal with the help of the lattice momentum using the model of Oseen and de Vries.
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1998 Frank Isakson Prize Address Sum frequency generation for vibrational spectroscopy: applications to water interfaces and films of water and ice
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used infrared-visible sum-frequency generation for surface or interfacial studies of media with inversion symmetry and obtained several interesting results on water and ice: the surface water structure is ice-like, no surface melting is evident at the quartz/ice interface and ice films grown on Pt(1/1/ 1) can be ferroelectric.