Extended conjugation and donor-acceptor substitution to improve the third-order optical nonlinearity of small molecules

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 25, 2007, Pages

  May, Joshua C ^a   Biaggio, Ivan ^a   Bures, Filip ^b   Diederich, François ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROSYMMETRIC MOLECULES; CYANOETHYNYLETHENE MOLECULES; EXTENDED CONJUGATION; OPTICAL TRANSITION; POWER-LAW DEPENDENCE; THIRD-ORDER POLARIZABILITY;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GROUND STATE; MOLECULAR SIEVES; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 34547313104     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2750396     Document Type: Article

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