Purely Optical, Reversible, Read-Write-Erase Cycling UsingPhotoswitchable Beads in Micropatterned Arrays

Using surface-templated electrophoretic deposition, arrays of polymer beads (photonic units) incorporating photo-switchable DAE molecules are created, which can be reversibly and individually switched between high and low emission states by direct photo-excitation, without any energy or electron transfer processes within the molecular system. The micropatterned array of these photonic units is spectroscopically characterized in detail […]