Self-assembly from the gas-phase: design and implementation of small-molecule chromophore precursors with large nonlinear optical responses

D Frattarelli, M Schiavo, A Facchetti…

Index: Frattarelli, David; Schiavo, Michele; Facchetti, Antonio; Ratner, Mark A.; Marks, Tobin J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009 , vol. 131, # 35 p. 12595 - 12612

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Abstract

Efficiently organizing molecular nonlinear optical (NLO) chromophores having large first- order hyperpolarizabilities (β) into acentric microstructures for electro-optic (EO) applications represents a significant materials synthesis and processing challenge, in part due to interchromophore dipolar interactions that promote centrosymmetric organization. Here we report the computational modeling, synthesis, and characterization of a series of eight ...