Ultrafast modulation of polarization amplitude by terahertz fields in electronic-type organic ferroelectrics

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Miyamoto, Tatsuya ^a   Yada, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamakawa, Hiromichi ^a   Okamoto, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRATHIAFULVALENE DERIVATIVE; TETRATHIAFULVALENE PARA CHLORANIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMPLITUDE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLARIZATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ENERGY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; OSCILLATION; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84886009690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3586     Document Type: Article

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