Optimum exchange for calculation of excitation energies and hyperpolarizabilities of organic electro-optic chromophores

Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3821-3831

  Garrett, Kerry ^b   Sosa Vazquez, Xochitla ^a   Egri, Shawn B ^c   Wilmer, Jacob ^a   Johnson, Lewis E ^b   Robinson, Bruce H ^b   Isborn, Christine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

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EID: 84907168751     PISSN: 15499618     EISSN: 15499626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ct500528z     Document Type: Article

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