Title :
New building blocks and growth processes for high-performance self-assembled electro-optic materials
Author :
Facchetti, Antonio ; Kan, Hu ; Jiang, Hua ; Marks, Tobin J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Chem. & the Mater. Res. Center, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL
Abstract :
The design rationale, synthesis, and characteristics of organic chromophores exhibiting very large EO response is presented along with new methodologies to assembled them in a noncentrosymmetric fashion.
Keywords :
electro-optical effects; nonlinear optics; optical films; optical materials; organic compounds; self-assembly; electro-optic films; growth process; high-performance self-assembled electro-optic materials; molecular nonlinearities; noncentrosymmetric fashion; organic chromophore synthesis; Assembly; Crystalline materials; Dielectric materials; High speed optical techniques; Integrated optics; Material storage; Nonlinear optics; Optical films; Optical materials; Organic materials; (190.0190) Nonlinear Optics; (310.0310) Thin Films;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Long Beach, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-813-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628017
