Design of a new optical material with broad spectrum linear and two-photon absorption and solvatochromism

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 44, 2013, Pages 23133-23147

  Moreshead, William V ^a   Przhonska, Olga V ^b   Bondar, Mykhailo V ^b   Kachkovski, Alexei D ^c   Nayyar, Iffat H ^a   Masunov, Artëm E ^a,d   Woodward, Adam W ^a   Belfield, Kevin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY LEVEL STRUCTURES; NONLINEAR ABSORPTION PROPERTIES; QUANTUM CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION; STRUCTURE PROPERTY RELATION; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION CROSS SECTION; TWO-PHOTON ABSORPTION SPECTRUM;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHROMOPHORES; DIMERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM YIELD; SOLVENTS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

TWO PHOTON PROCESSES;

EID: 84889876301     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp406500t     Document Type: Article

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