High-contrast photoswitching of nonlinear optical response in crosslinked ferroelectric liquid-crystalline polymers

Advanced Materials

Volumn 24, Issue 48, 2012, Pages 6410-6415

  Priimagi, Arri ^a,b   Ogawa, Keiji ^a   Virkki, Matti ^c   Mamiya, Jun Ichi ^a   Kauranen, Martti ^c   Shishido, Atsushi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

azobenzene; ferroelectric liquid crystal; photoswitching; second harmonic generation; two photon

Indexed keywords

AZOBENZENE MOLECULES; CROSSLINKED; FERROELECTRIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; HIGH CONTRAST; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; NOVEL MATERIALS; PHOTOCONTROL; PHOTOSWITCHING; SECOND-ORDER NONLINEAR OPTICAL; TWO PHOTON;

AZOBENZENE; FERROELECTRICITY; HARMONIC GENERATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONS;

FERROELECTRIC MATERIALS;

LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMER; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; POLYMERS;

EID: 84871269721     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: 15214095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201203369     Document Type: Article

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