The chiroptical properties of a thermally annealed film of chiral substituted polyfluorene depend on film thickness

Advanced Materials

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 1435-1438

  Craig, Michael R ^a   Jonkheijm, Pascal ^a   Meskers, Stefan C J ^a   Schenning, Albemus P H J ^a   Meijer, E W ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIREFRINGENCE; CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); GLASS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MORPHOLOGY; PHASE TRANSITIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TEMPERATURE;

CHIROPTICAL PROPERTIES; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; POLYFLUORENE; POLYPHENYLENEETHYNYLENE;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 0141518461     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200305243     Document Type: Article

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