Strong enhancement of nonlinear optical properties through supramolecular chirality

Science

Volumn 282, Issue 5390, 1998, Pages 913-915

  Verbiest, Thierry ^a   Van Elshocht, Sven ^a   Kauranen, Martti ^a   Hellemans, Louis ^a   Snauwaert, Johan ^a   Nuckolls, Colin ^b   Katz, Thomas J ^b   Persoons, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHIRALITY; CRYSTAL; MICROSCOPY; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE;

EID: 0032582495     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5390.913     Document Type: Article

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29. We acknowledge financial support from the Belgian government, the Belgian National Science Foundation, and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. T.V. is a postdoctoral fellow and L.H. is a research associate of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders. M.K. acknowledges the support of the Academy of Finland. C.N. and T.J.K. thank the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology and NSF for support.