Research Article

Induced Magnetic Anisotropy in Liquid Crystals Doped with Resonant Semiconductor Nanoparticles

Table 2

Maximum values of the effective magnetic permeability and magnetic anisotropy of an isolated nanoparticle made of different semiconductor materials (embedded in a W1825K LC host) for the ordinary and extraordinary cases. Radius of each NP that maximizes the permeability is also included.

NP mixture

AlAs2.4511.6180.83352
AlSb3.7582.2971.48758
GaAs2.4821.9200.582885
GaInP2.8811.9580.93078
GaP2.7141.7600.95653
InGaAs1.8791.6030.28476
Si3.0012.1050.93170
TiO22.0011.4390.57079