Linear and nonlinear optical properties of Langmuir-Blodgett multilayers from chromophore-containing maleic acid anhydride polymers

Materials Science and Engineering C

Volumn 8-9, Issue , 1999, Pages 527-537

  Schrader, Sigurd ^a   Zauls, Vismants ^a   Dietzel, Birgit ^b   Flueraru, Costel ^c   Prescher, Dietrich ^b   Reiche, Jürgen ^a   Motschmann, Hubert ^c   Brehmer, Ludwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b Inst Dunnschichttechnologie M   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF COLLOIDS AND INTERFACES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azobenzene; Fluorine containing chromophore; Nonlinear optics; Second order effects; Side chain polymers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001588484     PISSN: 09284931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-4931(99)00088-0     Document Type: Article

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