Optical second harmonic generation in achiral bis(n-alkylamino)dicyanoquinodimethanes: alkyl chain length as the design element

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 466-472

  Gangopadhyay, P ^a   Sharma, S ^a   Rao, A Jaganmohan ^a   Rao, D Narayana ^a   Cohen, Shmuel ^b   Agranat, Israel ^b   Radhakrishnan, T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 0001046420     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm980676h     Document Type: Article

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