On the nature of long-lived photoexcited states in polydiacetylenes: The photoinduced absorption spectra of PDA-4BCMU

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-129

  Comoretto, D ^a,b   Moggio, I ^b   Alloisio, M ^b   Cuniberti, C ^b   Musso, G F ^a,b   Ottonelli, M ^a   Dellepiane, G ^a,b   Kajzar, F ^c   Lorin, A ^c  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Conjugated polymers; Non linear optics; Oriented thin polymeric films; Polydiacetylenes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348134942     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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