Organic photoresponsive materials for information storage: a review

Yanling Zhuang; Xiuli Ren; Xueting Che; Shujuan Liu; Wei Huang; Qiang Zhao

doi:10.1117/1.AP.3.1.014001

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 3, Issue 1, 014001(2021)

Organic photoresponsive materials for information storage: a review

Yanling Zhuang¹, Xiuli Ren¹, Xueting Che¹, Shujuan Liu¹, Wei Huang^1,2、*, and Qiang Zhao^1、*

¹Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Institute of Advanced Materials, Key Laboratory for Organic Electronics and Information Displays and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biosensors, Nanjing, China

²Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an Institute of Flexible Electronics, Institute of Flexible Electronics, Frontiers Science Center for Flexible Electronics, MIIT Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics, Xi’an Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Xi’an, China

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Category: Reviews

Received: Sep. 27, 2020

Accepted: Nov. 11, 2020

Published Online: Dec. 15, 2020

The Author Email: Huang Wei (provost@nwpu.edu.cn), Zhao Qiang (iamqzhao@njupt.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.3.1.014001

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