Measuring electric field dependent photodegradation and recovery of disperse orange 11 dye doped polymer thin films using photoconductivity and digital imaging microscopy

@inproceedings{Anderson2012MeasuringEF,
  title={Measuring electric field dependent photodegradation and recovery of disperse orange 11 dye doped polymer thin films using photoconductivity and digital imaging microscopy},
  author={Benjamin R. Anderson and Sheng-Ting Hung and Mark G. Kuzyk},
  booktitle={Other Conferences},
  year={2012}
}
One of the limiting factors of optical devices for space applications is photodamage from high intensity light and radiation. Dye doped polymers offer many advantages in device design but are susceptible to photodamage, especially due to high intensity UV radiation. Several organic dyes have been observed to self heal after photodegradation. We seek to understand the underlying mechanism with the goal of designing materials that are more robust to photodegradation. We test the hypothesis that… 
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