Optical shutter driven photochemically from anisotropic polymer network containing liquid crystalline and azobenzene molecules

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 160-162

  Kurihara, Seiji ^a   Masumoto, Kohji ^a   Nonaka, Takamasa ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 0000434098     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.121742     Document Type: Article

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