Efficient and robust multiphoton data storage in molecular glasses and highly crosslinked polymers

Nature Materials

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 225-228

  Olson, Christopher E ^a   Previte, Michael J R ^b   Fourkas, John T ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSSLINKING; FLUORESCENCE; OSCILLATIONS; PHOTONS; POLYMERS;

MOLECULAR GLASSES;

OPTICAL DATA STORAGE;

GLASS; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONICS; PHOTON;

ELECTRONICS; GLASS; PHOTONS; POLYMERS;

EID: 0036974873     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat766     Document Type: Article

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