Plastic lasers: Semiconducting polymers as a new class of solid-state laser materials

Synthetic Metals

Volumn 84, Issue 1-3, 1997, Pages 455-462

  Díaz García, María A ^a   Hide, Fumitomo ^a   Schwartz, Benjamin J ^a,c   Andersson, Mats R ^a,d   Pei, Qibing ^b   Heeger, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Lasers; Photoluminescence; Poly(phenylene vinylene) and derivatives; Stimulated luminescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 85049057207     PISSN: 03796779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0379-6779(97)80829-6     Document Type: Article

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