• DocumentCode
    2783775
  • Title

    Probing photoconductivity in discotic liquid crystals by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

  • Author

    Xia, Chen ; Duzhko, Volodimyr ; Shi, Hefei ; Singer, Kenneth D. ; Shan, Jie

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, USA
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Optical pump/terahertz probe spectroscopy was employed to investigate electronic charge transport in discotic liquid crystals. Frequency dependent complex conductivity was observed in phthalocyanines for a few hundred of picoseconds following a femtosecond photoexcitation.
  • Keywords
    Conductivity; Frequency dependence; Liquid crystals; Optical pumping; Photoconductivity; Probes; Spectroscopy; Time domain analysis; Ultrafast electronics; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2007.4431101
  • Filename
    4431101