Surface-relief gratings azopolymers

Tripathy, S. K., Viswanathan, N., Balasubramanian, S., Bian, S., Li, L., and Kumar, J. Polarization dependent holographic write, read and erasure of surface relief gratings on azopolymer films, in Multiphoton and Light Driven Multielectron Processes in Organics New Phenomena, Materials and Applications, pp. 421-436, eds R Kajzar and M. V. Agranovich, 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands. 

Sumaru, K., Yamanaka, X, Fukuda, X, and Matsuda, H. Photoinduced surface relief gratings on azopolymer fihn.s . Analysis by a fluid mechanics model. Appl. Phys. Lett. 1999, 75, pp. 1878-1880. 

Camilo CS, dos Santos DSJ, Rodrigues JJJ, Vega ML, Campana Filho SP, Oliveira ONJ, Mendonfa CR. 2003. Surface relief gratings and photoinduced birefringence in layer by layer films of chitosan and an azopolymer. Biomacromolecules 4 1583 1588. 

Zucolotto V, Struck PJ, Santos FR, Balogh DT, Constantino CJL, Mendonca CR, Oliveira ON, Jr. 2004b. Molecular engineering strategies to control photo induced birefringence and surface relief gratings on layer by layer films from an azopolymer. Thin Sol Films 453 454 110 113. 

Labarthet FL, Buffeteau T, Sourisseau C. 2001. Time dependent analysis of the formation of a half period surface relief grating on amorphous azopolymer films. J Appl Phys... 

The photoinduced immobilization technique is closely related to the formation process used for surface relief gratings (SRG) because both phenomena are based on mass transportation of the azopolymer surface. The relief structure on the azopolymer surface is induced by the interference of the two coherent beams that are used for the irradiation, with the same periodic structure as the interference light, as shown in Fig. 9.3. Intensive studies for SRG formation have been reported since it was first developed in 1995 (Batalla et al., 1995 Kim et al., 1995). Various deformed structures that can be induced by photoirradiation... 

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