Photoinduced dichroism and optical anisotropy in a liquid-crystalline azobenzene side chain polymer caused by anisotropic angular distribution of trans and cis isomers

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3860-3866

  Blinov, Lev M ^a,b   Kozlovsky, Mikhail V ^b,c   Ozaki, Masanori ^a   Skarp, Kent ^c   Yoshino, Katsumi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHUBNIKOV INSTITUTE OF CRYSTALLOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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EID: 0001399665     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.368565     Document Type: Article

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