Table of Contents

Part A - Photoisomerization and Photo-Orientation of Azobenzenes

1. Photoisomerization of Benzenes
2. Ultrafast Dynamics in the Excited States of Azo Compounds
3. Photo-Orientation by Photoisomerization

Part B - Photoisomerization in Organic Thin Films

4. Photoisomerization and Photo-orientation of Azo Dye in Films of Polymer: Molecualr Interaction, Free Volume, and Polymer Structural Effects
5. Chrial Polymers with Photoaffected Phase Behavior for Optical Data Storage
6. Photoisomerization in Langmuir-Blodget-Kuhn Structures
7. Electronic and Optical Transduction of Photoisomerization Processes at Molecualr - and Bimolecular-Functionalized Surfaces

Part C - Photochemistry and Organic Nonlinear Optics

8. Photoisomerization Effects in Organic Nonlinear Optics: Photo-Assisted Poling and Depoling and Polarizability Switching
9. Photoisomerization in Polymer Films in the Presence of Electrostatic and Optical Fields
10. Photoassisted Poling and Photoswitching of NLO Properties of Spiropyrans and other Photochromic Molecules in Polymers and Crystals
11. All Optical Poling in Polymers and Applications
12. Photoinduced Third Order Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Azo-Dye Polymers

Part D - Optical Manipulation and Memory

13. Photoinduced Motions in Azobenzene-Based Polymers
14. Surface Relief Gratings on Azobenzene-Containing Films
15. Dynamic Photocontrols of Molecular Organization and Motion of Materials by Two-Dimensionally Arranged Azobenzene Assemblies
16. 3-D Data Storage and Near Field Recording
17. Synthesis and Applications of Amorphous Diarylethenes
Index

About the Author

Wolfgang Knoll is at AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria Jean-Michel Nunzi is a professor jointly appointed with the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, and the Department of Chemistry at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. His areas of research are optical and electronic properties of organic materials and devices, chiral photonics, and solar cells.