Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics

Volume 31, Number 1-4, 2004

Special Issue
Smart and Functional Organic Materials
Proceedings of NATO Advanced Research Workshop
Bucharest, Romania, June 10 - 14, 2003
Guest Editors
A. Meghea and F. Kajzar
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Microcellular Foams from Some High–Performance Thermoplastics and Their Composites
HONGLIU SUN, JAMES E. MARK, SENG C. TAN, NARAYANAN VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, MARLENE D. HOUTZ, FRED E. ARNOLD and CHARLES Y-C. LEE
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“Smart” Polysiloxane Monolayers and Self-organized Ultrathin Films
YULI K. GODOVSKY, SERGEI I. BELOUSOV, NATALYA N. MAKAROVA, GERALD BREZESINSKI, HELMUTH MOHWALD, TORBEN R. JENSEN, and KRISTIAN KJAER
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Some Properties and Methods of Preparation of Thin Solid Anisotropic Organic Films
MARIAN KRYSZEWSKI
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Potential of Lignocellulosic Fibrous Raw Materials, Their Properties and Diversified Applications
RYSZAARD KOZLOWSKI, JADWIGA KOZLOWSKA, MICHAB RWWLUK and JORGE BARRIGA
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Application of Polymers in Optoelectronic Devices
JAMES G. GROTE, DARNELL E. DIGGS, JOHN S. ZETTS, ROBERT L. NELSON, FRANK K. HOPKINS, LARRY DALTON, CHENG ZHANG, and WILLIAM H. STEIER
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Nonlinear Optical Properties of Supramolecular Structures
SONJA SIONCKE, THIERRY VERBIEST, THOMAS KATZ, LIBOR VYKLICKY, and ANDRE PERSOONS
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Wave-packet Dynamics of Herzberg-Teller-type in Porphyrin J-aggregates Studied by Sub-5-fs Spectroscopy
TAKAYOSHI KOBAYASHI and HIDEAKI KANO
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Molecular Photonic Materials in The Light of High-Resolution Spectroscopy
W.J. BUMA, R.A. RIJKENBERG, and D.H.A. TER STEEGE
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New Insight to Excitons in Conjugated Polymers
N. KIROVA and S. BRAZOVSKII
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Liquid Crystals Light Valves for Spatial Amplitude and Phase Control of Laser Beams
J.P. HUIGNARD, J. BOURDERIONNET, A. BRIGNON, M.S.L. LEE and B. LOISEAUX
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Turning on Fluorescence by Two-Photon Excitation and Polymerization: Toward a 3-D Optical Memory Device
DANIEL J. DYER, BRIAN H. CUMPSTON, DIANNE MCCORD-MAUGHON, S. THAYUMANAVAN, STEPHEN BARLOW, JOSEPH W. PERRY, and SETH R. MARDER
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Structure-Property Relationships for Reactively Compatibilized Thermoplastic Elastomers from Recycled Polyolefins and Rubbers
OLGA P. GRIGORYEVA, ALEXANDER M. FAINLEIB, ALEXANDER L. TOLSTOV, OLGA M. STAROSTENKO
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Microimaging of the Water Diffusion in Hydrophylic Polymers
NARCYZ PISLEWSKI, JADWIGA TRITT-GOC and JOANNA KOWALCZUK
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Influence of Excitation Transfer on the All-optical Orientation of Fluorescent Chromophores in Polymers
SEBASTIEN BIDAULT, SOPHIE BRASSELET, VERONIQUE LE FLOCH and JOSEPH ZYSS
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Spontaneous Photo-Induced Structuration of the Surface of Azo-Benzene polymer Films by the Molecular Migration Effect
CHRISTOPHE HUBERT, CELINE FIORINI-DEBUISSCHERT, PAUL RAIMOND, JEAN-MICHEL NUNZI, JEAN-JACQUES SIMON and LUDOVIC ESCOUBAS
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Polysilylenes – Functionalized Materials for Photorefractivity
S. NESPUREK, J. SWORAKOWSKI, F. KAJZAR, and C. COMBELLAS
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Ionic Conducting Thermostable Polymers: Properties and Applications to Membranes for Fuel Cells
JEAN-CLAUDE DUBOIS
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Third-order Nonlinear Optical Properties in New Thiophene-based Extended p-conjugated Systems
I. FUKS- JANCZAREK, A. MIGALSKA-ZALAS, S. DABOS-SEIGNON, B. SAHRAUI, T.J. ZOUEU, I.V. KITYK, J. RONCALI, and C. MARTINEAU
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Thermally Stimulated Carrier Transport in Polymers and Oxygen Related Traps in MEH-PPV Diodes
VAIDOTAS KAZUKAUSKAS
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Holographic Gratings Recording in Liquid Crystals and Functionalised Polymers and Their Role in Optical Information Processing
A. MINIEWICZ, S. BARTKIEWICZ, J. MYSLIWIEC, K. KOMOROWSKA, A. SOBOLEWSKA, L. GRYGA, F. KAJZAR, D. SEK, E. GRABIEC, A.C. MITUS, and G. PAWLIK
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Mechanisms of Photorefractivity in Liquid Crystals
S. BARTKIEWICZ, K. MATCZYSZYN, J. MYSLIWIEC, A. MINIEWICZ, and F. KAJZAR
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Photovoltaic Behaviour of Non-Fluorescent Metal-Free Phthalocyanines
DANUTA WROBEL, ANDRZEJ BOGUTA, ALEKSANDRA WOJCIK and RODICA M. ION
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Zwitterionic Polymers and Photozymes for New Technologies
GEORGE S. GEORGIEV, ANNA A. TZONEVA, LYUDMIL G. LYUTOV and IVAN K. PETKOV
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Structural Morphologies of Non-Mesogenic Polymer Stabilized Low Molar Mass Liquid Crystals
A.-M. ALBU L. ZOHRABYAN, V.V. PRESNYAKOV and T.V. GALSTIAN
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