Electric field dependence of poling response for nematic liquid crystalline main chain polymers with large second order optical nonlinearities

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 151-155

  Koch, A T H ^a   Warner, M ^a   Fridrikh, S V ^a   Toussaere, E ^b   Zyss, J ^b   Schwarzwalder C E ^c   Tajbakhsh, A R ^c   Moratti, S C ^c   Friend, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELLIPSOMETRY; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

AZOBENZENE; HYDROXYBENZOIC ACID; POLING RESPONSE;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS;

EID: 0034326205     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-6779(00)00325-8     Document Type: Article

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