Chromophores with strong heterocyclic acceptors: A poled polymer with a large electro-optic coefficient

Science

Volumn 271, Issue 5247, 1996, Pages 335-337

  Ahlheim, Markus ^a   Barzoukas, Marguerite ^b   Bedworth, Peter V ^c   Blanchard Desce, Mireille ^c,d   Fort, Alain ^b   Hu, Zhong Ying ^c   Marder, Seth R ^c,e   Perry, Joseph W ^c,e   Runser, Claude ^b   Staehelin, Markus ^a,f   Zysset, Beat ^a  

^a Sandoz Huningue   (France)

^b Inst Phys/Chem Mat de Strasbourg   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 4243056057     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.271.5247.335     Document Type: Article

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19. The work in this paper was performed in part at the Center for Space Microelectronics Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This work was sponsored by the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Innovative Science and Technology Office Support from the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is also gratefully acknowledged. M.S. thanks the Sctiweiz Nationalfonds for support. P.V.B thanks the James Irvine Foundation for a postdoctoral fellowship.