Ellipsometric analysis for a polarization-controlling thin film with large photoinduced chirality

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 4954-4958

  Sumimura, Hiroshi ^a   Fukuda, Takashi ^b   Barada, Daisuke ^b   Kim, Jun Young ^c   Itoh, Masahide ^a   Yatagai, Toyohiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c Samyang Corporation   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE; CHIRALITY; ELLIPSOMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL FUNCTIONS; PCDY50 THIN FILM; PHOTORESPONSIVE AZOBENZENE (PCDY50);

THIN FILMS;

EID: 35448967834     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.004954     Document Type: Article

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