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Polarized Fluorescence from Vitrified Liquid Crystalline Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Brooke M. Conger
Affiliation:
Center for Optoelectronics and Imaging and Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 240 East River Rd., Rochester, NY 14623-1212
H. Shi
Affiliation:
Center for Optoelectronics and Imaging and Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 240 East River Rd., Rochester, NY 14623-1212
S. H. Chen
Affiliation:
Center for Optoelectronics and Imaging and Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, 240 East River Rd., Rochester, NY 14623-1212
T. Tsutsui
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, Kyushu University, Kasuga, Fukuoka 816, Japan
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Abstract

Linearly and circularly polarized photoluminescence (PL) were observed from neat vitrified liquid crystal (LC) films. Electronic properties of the compounds were investigated through measurement of absorption and emission spectra in solution and in film. The nematic film exhibited a polarization factor (linear polarization) of 2.8 at an order parameter of 0.70, whereas the chiral nematic film gave rise to an absolute dissymmetry factor (circular polarization) of 0.27 at an order parameter of 0.54.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1996

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