Study of domain formation and relaxation in thin polymeric films by femtosecond hyper-Rayleigh scattering

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 369-378

  Olbrechts, Geert ^a   Put, Erik J H ^a   Van Steenwinckel, David ^a   Clays, Koen ^a   Persoons, André ^a,b   Samyn, Celest ^a   Matsuda, Naoki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NATL INST OF MAT AND CHEM RES   (Japan)

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EID: 0032346710     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.15.000369     Document Type: Article

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