Nonlinear optical properties of vanadylphthalocyanine thin films prepared on polyethyleneterephthalate substrate

Author

Souma, T. ; Maeda, A. ; Furuhashi, H. ; Yoshikawa, T. ; Uchida, Y. ; Kojima, K. ; Ohashi, A. ; Ieda, M. ; Ochiai, S. ; Mizutani, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Aichi Inst. of Technol., Toyota, Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1999

fDate

Aug. 30 1999-Sept. 3 1999

Firstpage

847

Abstract

Vanadylphthalocyanine (VOPc) thin films were prepared on a PET (polyethyleneterephthalate) film substrate by a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). The PET substrate is more flexible, transparent and simple in manufacturing than alkali-halide one. Therefore, the VOPc thin film accumulated on PET film is attractive in making waveguides. On the other hand, the third harmonic intensity of nonlinear optical film increases with the thickness of VOPc thin film. Therefore, It´s important to prepare a thicker VOPc film on PET substrate. Conditions for preparing a VOPc film on PET film are not well understood yet. In this paper, we succeeded to prepare the VOPc films on PET substrate. VOPc nonlinear optical films were obtained under the control of substrate temperature, and evaporating time.

Keywords

molecular beam epitaxial growth; nonlinear optics; optical films; organic compounds; MBE; PET film substrate; molecular beam epitaxy; nonlinear optical film; nonlinear optical properties; polyethyleneterephthalate substrate; third harmonic intensity; vanadylphthalocyanine thin films; Flexible manufacturing systems; Molecular beam epitaxial growth; Nonlinear optics; Optical control; Optical films; Optical waveguides; Plastic films; Positron emission tomography; Substrates; Transistors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 1999. CLEO/Pacific Rim '99. The Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Seoul, South Korea

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5661-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.1999.817864

Filename

817864