Photoswitching in polymers with photochromic dipolar species

Nonlinear Optics Quantum Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 289-300

  Toman, Petr ^a   Nešpůrek, Stanislav ^a,b   Weiter, Martin ^b   Vala, Martin ^b   Sworakowski, Juliusz ^c   Bartkowiak, Wojciech ^c   Menšík, Miroslav ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Molecular switch; Photochromism; Polymer; Quantum mechanical calculation; Tight binding approximation

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; NITROGEN COMPOUNDS; PHOTOCHROMISM; PHOTOCURRENTS; QUANTUM THEORY;

MOLECULAR SWITCH; POLYMER CHAIN; TIGHT-BINDING APPROXIMATION;

VINYL RESINS;

EID: 34249828161     PISSN: 15430537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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