Nirmal K. Viswanathan

TL;DR: In this article, the design and synthesis of several classes of suitable azobenzene functionalized polymers for the surface relief grating (SRG) formation process is discussed and experimental studies are carried out to understand the chemical and physical intricacies involved in the SRG formation process.

TL;DR: In this article, two-beam interference experiments were carried out to form surface-relief gratings (SRGs) on azo polymer films under different polarization combinations, and it was shown that SRG formation on azobenzene chromophore functionalized polymer films has been shown to depend on both the spatial variation of the intensity as well as the polarization state of the incident field pattern.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of three important parameters: the degree of azo functionalization, the irradiating light intensity, and the initial film thickness on the writing behavior of surface relief grating.

TL;DR: In this article, the spin-Hall effect of light has been shown to be a transverse spin-dependent shift of the paraxial light beam transmitted through the plate, which is a novel example of the spin Hall effect of energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the development of a novel method for molecular level assembly and processing of multilayer azo polymer films is described. But the method is not suitable for the processing of poly(acrylic acid)-based precursor anilino functional polymer.