Dipping-induced anisotropy in hemicyanine Langmuir - Blodgett multilayers
- 14 June 1996
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 29 (6) , 1576-1579
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/29/6/024
Abstract
Polarized UV - visible absorption and rotation-angle second-harmonic generation techniques were used to investigate the in-plane symmetry in Y-type Langmuir - Blodgett multilayers of a hemicyanine dye interleaved with the inert material arachidic acid. Dipping-induced anisotropy of the molecular orientation with a unique reflection symmetry was enhanced with increasing dipping speed.Keywords
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