Efficient single-beam light manipulation of 3D microstructures in azobenzene-containing materials

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 18687-18695

  Gritsai, Yuri ^a   Goldenberg, Leonid M ^a,b   Stumpe, Joachim ^c  

^a Institute of Thin Film Technology and Microsensorics   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; DEFORMATION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LITHOGRAPHY; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; POLARIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D MICROSTRUCTURES; ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; BEAM ORIENTATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; LARGE ASPECT RATIO; LINEAR GRATINGS; OPTICAL STRUCTURES; POLARIZATION PLANES; SINGLE BEAM; SOFT LITHOGRAPHY; SQUARE POSTS;

MATERIALS;

EID: 80052705018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.018687     Document Type: Article

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