Photorefractive amorphous organic

The Photorefractive Effect in Crystals and Amorphous Organic Media... 

More recently the promising range of applications for photorefractive materials has motivated the rapid development of amorphous, organic materials with a strong photorefractive response [5]. Here the chemical composition of the materials may be varied with relative ease and the opportunity to compare materials from different sources should exist. The various processes necessary for photorefraction may be obtained by a single material, or many different molecular species may be mixed in a composite to provide the range of properties needed. These amorphous materials do not have a well-defined mobility for the photogenerated holes that... 

Electron Transfer in Amorphous Organic Photorefractive Media 481... 

The field of photorefractivity in organic polymers and glasses has been in existence for less than a decade. The understanding of charge generation in these materials (which are often composites) is not yet mature, and the behavior of some of the more common constituents is understood better. Much of the literature on photo-refraetivity deseribes free earrier generation quantum efficiency measurements only briefly, before a more detailed discussion of other factors such as mobility and electro-optic response. Some of the relevant information pertinent to free carrier generation in these materials is presented here, to be followed by a review of this aspect of the amorphous photorefractives literature. 

An Overview of Amorphous Organic Photorefractives and Their Applications 503... 

In this section, we will first provide a short discussion on some of the basics of the design of photorefractive polymers. Then we will review some of the basic physical properties such as photogeneration and transport in organic amorphous materials needed to develop and understand photorefractive polymers. We will describe the orientational photorefractive effect that is used in most of today s low glass transition temperature materials. Finally we will describe selected examples of photorefractive polymers and describe their optical and electrical properties. 

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