Third-harmonic generation from regio-regular and regio-irregular poly(3-dodecylthiophenes). Dependence of Χ(3) on conjugation length

Advanced Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 920-923

  Bjørnholm, Thomas ^a   Greve, Daniel R ^a   Geisler, Tommy ^b   Petersen, Jan C ^c   Jayaraman, Manikandan ^d   McCullough, Richard D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c DANISH FUNDAMENTAL METROLOGY   (Denmark)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; HARMONIC GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OLIGOMERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PLASTIC FILMS; SUBSTRATES;

POLYTHIOPHENES; THIRD HARMONIC GENERATION;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 0030289818     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.19960081111     Document Type: Article

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