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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Photochemical hole burning in rigidly coupled polyacenes

Mark A. Iannone, Kimberly Salt, Gary W. Scott, Tomihiro Yamashita

Published Dec 1, 1991• 0 citations
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Abstract

The process of photochemical hole burning in rigidly coupled polyacenes is discussed. Photochemical mechanisms in these systems are conducive to low temperature spectral hole burning. Several factors which determine the shape and width of spectral holes are discussed. Prospects for use in information storage applications are presented.
DOI
10.1117/12.50667

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