Self-assembled electrooptic thin films with remarkably blue-shifted optical absorption based on an X-shaped chromophore

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 49, 2004, Pages 15974-15975

  Kang, Hu ^a   Zhu, Peiwang ^a   Yang, Yu ^a   Facchetti, Antonio ^a   Marks, Tobin J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; SILOXANE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHROMATOPHORE; EXCITATION; FILM; HECK REACTION; HORNER REACTION; LINEAR SYSTEM; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; SUBSTITUTION REACTION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 10344225144     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja045043k     Document Type: Article

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44. max), and n is the refractive index.