Stimulated emission and lasing in solid films of conjugated polymers: Ultrafast photophysics and photon confinement via scattering

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 355, Issue 1725, 1997, Pages 775-787

  Schwartz, B J ^a,d   Hide, F ^a   Diaz Garcia M A ^a   Andersson, M R ^c   Heeger, A J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^d University of California   (United States)

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EID: 3042970438     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1997.0043     Document Type: Article

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