Definition of critical structure/function relationships and integration issues for organic electro-optic materials

Nonlinear Optics Quantum Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 15-26

  Grote, James G ^a   Dalton, Larry R ^b   Sullivan, Philip ^b   Robinson, Bruce H ^b   Eichinger, Bruce ^b   Jen, Alex K Y ^b   Benight, Stephanie ^b   Kosilkin, Ilya ^b   Bale, Denise H ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Dendrimers; Dielectric permittivity; Intermolecular electrostatic interactions; Molecular first hyperpolarizability; Monte Carlo calculations; Organic electro optic materials and devices; Polymers; Time dependent density functional theory

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; FIRST HYPERPOLARIZABILITIES; INTERMOLECULAR ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS; ORGANIC ELECTRO-OPTIC MATERIALS; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

CHROMOPHORES; COMPLEXATION; DENDRIMERS; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATICS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; HYBRID MATERIALS; INTEGRATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTONIC DEVICES;

ORGANIC POLYMERS;

EID: 77950843595     PISSN: 15430537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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