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Published on: September 20, 2017
Phenomenological analysis of the light intensity dependence of the photoalignment process in azo-containing polymeric
L T Thieghi1, F Batalioto, I H Bechtold
1Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, P. O. Box 66318, São Paulo 05389-970, SP, Brazil.
Abstract:
A phenomenological model is proposed to analyze the influence of the incident light intensity on the photoinduced anisotropy of an azobenzene-containing polymer film. The optical anisotropy was generated in the films by the incidence of linearly polarized light and monitored by transmittance measurements.

