A possible anthracene-based optical molecular switch driven by a reversible photodimerization reaction

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Zhao, P ^a,b   Fang, C F ^a   Xia, C J ^a   Wang, Y M ^a   Liu, D S ^a,c   Xie, S J ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^c JINING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACENE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MONOMERS; PHOTOEXCITATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS (AIP); ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES (ETP); FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; MOLECULAR SWITCHING; NON EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION (NEGF); OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PHOTO DIMERIZATION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; TEMPERATURE RANGES; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 47249143651     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2938415     Document Type: Article

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