Nanocomposite Photoanisotropic Materials for Applications in Polarization Holography and Photonics

D Nazarova, L Nedelchev, N Berberova-Buhova… - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Photoanisotropic materials, in particular azodyes and azopolymers, have attracted
significant research interest in the last decades. This is due to their applications in …

Surface enhanced visible absorption of dye molecules in the near-field of gold nanoparticles

S Elhani, H Ishitobi, Y Inouye, A Ono, S Hayashi… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Surface enhanced absorption is a plasmonic effect parenting to surface enhanced
fluorescence and Raman scattering, and it was clearly reported to occur in the infrared …

Self-assembly of fluorescent nanospheres on nanostructured azo molecular thin films and optical near-field excitation

Y Ohdaira, A Baba, K Shinbo… - Japanese Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We demonstrate self-assembly of fluorescent polymer nanospheres on a nanostructured
azobenzene molecular thin film, and evaluate optical near-field excitation of aligned …

Photochemical tweezing and surface relief gratings in azo-polymers

S Moujdi, Z Sekkat - Molecular and Nano Machines II, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We use the concept of vectorial photochemical tweezing to rationalize experimental
observations of surface relief gratings in azo-polymers, eg, the photochemically induced …