Light-Driven Alignment

• Main Author: Antonyuk, Boris P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 141
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical optics.; Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69888-3

This book deals with influencing the properties of solids by light-driven electron transport. The theoretical basis of these effects, light-driven ordering and self-organisation, as well as optical motors are presented. With light as a tool, new ways to produce materials are opened.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Light-Driven Ordering: Theory
• Domain Charge Structure of Amorphous Semiconductor
• Light-Driven Spatial Ordering in Random Media
• Light-Driven Orientational Ordering
• Self-Organization in Ge-Doped Silica Fibers and Second Harmonic Generation
• Optical Motors: Towards the Model of Life Emerge at the Earth
• Light-Driven Temporal Self-Organization
• Conclusion.