Smart photochromic gratings with switchable wettability realized by green-light interferometry

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Mele, Elisa ^a   Pisignano, Dario ^a   Varda, Maria ^a,c   Farsari, Maria ^a   Filippidis, George ^a   Fotakis, Costas ^a,c   Athanassiou, Athanassia ^a   Cingolani, Roberto ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND LASER   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; HYDROPHILICITY; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTOCHROMISM; WETTING;

INTERFEROMETRIC PATTERNING; MICROFLUIDICS; PHOTOCHROMIC GRATINGS; WETTABILITY;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

EID: 33646890727     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2198509     Document Type: Article

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