Photoluminescent polarizers

C. Weder, S. Sarwa, A. Montali, C. Bastiaansen, and P. Smith, Incorporation of photoluminescent polarizers into liquid crystal displays, Science, 279 835-837, 1998. 

M Eglin, A Montali, ARA Palmans, T Tervoort, P Smith, and C Weder, Ultra-high performance photoluminescent polarizers based on melt-processed polymer blends, J. Mater. Chem., 9 2221-2226, 1999. 

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Photoluminescence (PL) in the polysilanes is well documented,34b,34c and for the poly(diarylsilane)s occurs typically with a small Stokes shift and almost mirror image profile of the UV absorption.59 This is due to the similarity of the chromophore and fluorophore structures in the ground and excited states, respectively, which is a result of the fact that little structural change occurs on excitation of the electrons from the a to the a orbitals. As PL is the emissive counterpart to UV, the emissive counterpart to CD is circularly polarized pho-toluminescence (CPPL). Where the fluorophore is chiral, then the photoexcited state can return to the ground state with emission of circularly polarized light, the direction of polarization of which depends on the relative intensities of the right-handed and left-handed emissions (/R and /l, respectively), which in turn depends on the chirality of the material, or more accurately, the chirality... 

L.M. Herz and R.T. Phillips, Effects of interchain interactions, polarization anisotropy, and photo-oxidation on the ultrafast photoluminescence decay from a polyfluorene, Phys. Rev. B, 61 13691-13697, 2000. 

BMW Langeveld-Voss, R Janssen, MPT Christiaans, SCJ Meskers, HPJM Dekkers, and EW Meijer, Circular dichroism and circular polarization of photoluminescence of highly ordered poly 3,4-di[(5)-2-methylbutoxy]thiophene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118 4908 -909, 1996. 

A Montali, C Bastiaansen, P Smith, and C Weder, Polarizing energy transfer in photoluminescent materials for display applications, Nature, 392 261-264, 1998. 

NS Sariciftci, U Lemmer, D Vacar, AJ Heeger, and RAJ Janssen, Polarized photoluminescence of oligothiophenes in nematic liquid crystalline matrices, Adv. Mater., 8 651-653, 1996. 

G Liissem, R Festag, A Greiner, C Schmidt, C Unterlechner, W Heitz, JH Wendorff, M Hopmeier, and J Feldmann, Polarized photoluminescence of liquid-crystalline polymers with isolated aryle-nevinylene segments in the main-chain, Adv. Mater., 7 923-928, 1995. 

D Katsis, HP Chen, SH Chen, LJ Rothberg, and T Tsutsui, Polarized photoluminescence from solid films of nematic and chiral-nematic poly(p-phenylene)s, Appl. Phys. Lett., 77 2982-2984, 2000. 

Circularly Polarized Photoluminescence (CPPL) from Polysilanes 629... 

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