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Chromophoric self-assembled multilayers. Organic superlattice approaches to thin-film nonlinear optical materials

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Chemical Society; (United States)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ja00176a045· OSTI ID:5411080
Poled polymer and acentric Langmuir-Blodgett films represent promising approaches to high-efficiency second harmonic generation (SHG) materials. Nevertheless, net achievable nonlinear optical (NLO) chromophore alignments, number densities, and alignment temporal stabilities are significant issues in the former materials, as are scattering microdomains, structural stability, and structural regularity, in the latter. The authors communicate here an alternative approach to thin-film NLO materials utilizing the sequential construction of covalently self-assembled chromophore-containing multilayer structures.
OSTI ID:
5411080
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Chemical Society; (United States), Journal Name: Journal of the American Chemical Society; (United States) Vol. 112:20; ISSN 0002-7863; ISSN JACSA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English