Remanent photoinduced birefringence in thin photochromic sol-gel films

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1657-1659

  Peretti, J ^a   Biteau, J ^a   Boilot, J P ^a   Chaput, F ^a   Safarov, V I ^b   Lehn, J M ^c   Fernandez Acebes A ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DE LA MATIÈRE CONDENSÉE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIREFRINGENCE; DISCOLORATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DATA STORAGE; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTOCHROMISM; REACTION KINETICS; SOL-GELS; THIN FILMS; TRANSPARENCY;

LINEAR DICHROISM;

OPTICAL FILMS;

EID: 0032615227     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123645     Document Type: Article

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