Research Director: Dr. Yasuhiro Koike
(Professor, Faculty of Science & Technology, Keio University)
Research Term: 2000-2005

It has been thought that polymers are not suitable for applications in the next generation photonics, in which higher function of materials is required, because little is known about the relation between optical properties of polymers and its morphology. The objective of KOIKE PHOTONICS POLYMER PROJECT is to create the ideal photonics polymers by designing molecular and higher structures of polymers based on detail investigation of physical and chemical fundamentals of scattering, refraction, absorption, dispersion, stimulated emission, and so on in the polymers from Optics and Materials Science.