Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 61071015 and 11147188;the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department under Grant No 11C0066;the Construct Program of the Key Discipline in Hunan Province.
We report the ab initio calculations of transport behaviors of an azobenzene molecular device which is similar to the experimental configurations.The calculated results show that the transport behaviors of the device ...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10675083.
Photoinduced birefringence in a liquid-crystalline azobenzene side-chain polymer is investigated. It is observed that the birefringence does not show any decay but increases after switching off the pump light at room ...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No 10675083, and the Applied Materials Shanghai Research and Development Fund (0416).
The photoinduced birefringence in an azobenzene polymer is investigated at different temperatures between -20℃ to 50℃. It is found that there is a peak value of photoinduced birefringence in the temperature dependen...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.19604015;Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province under Grant No.980279.
The mechanisms of photoinduced microstructures in an azobenzene polymer film are presented.They are based on the spatial periodic modulation of optical intensity and the photoisomerization of azobenzene molecules with...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.19604015.
Pattern formation in azobenzene polymer film by degenerate four-wave mixing is reported.Island arrays with specific patterns are analyzed with scanning electron microscopy and polarizing optical microscopy.It is demon...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.59790050.
Image storage based on photoinduced alignment in azobenzene liquid-crystalline films is reported.Measurements reveal that the liquid-crystalline film possesses large photoinduced birefringence(Δ_(n)~10^(-2))and perma...
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province;Special Research Foundation of Doctorate Station in University of China.
Optical storage caused by photo-induced anisotropy in poly[3-methyl-4-bis(N,N-oxyethylene)imino-4-nitro-azobenzene sebacoyl]film is studied by degenerate four-wave mixing.Molecule orientation gratings which are stable...