SELF-ASSEMBLED 2ND-ORDER NONLINEAR-OPTICAL MULTILAYER AZO POLYMER

Authors
WANG XG BALASUBRAMANIAN S LI L JIANG XL SANDMAN DJ RUBNER MF KUMAR J TRIPATHY SK
Citation
Xg. Wang et al., SELF-ASSEMBLED 2ND-ORDER NONLINEAR-OPTICAL MULTILAYER AZO POLYMER, Macromolecular rapid communications, 18(6), 1997, pp. 451-459
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Polymer Sciences
Journal title
Macromolecular rapid communications → ACNP
ISSN journal
10221336
Volume
18
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
451 - 459
Database
ISI
SICI code
1022-1336(1997)18:6<451:S2NMAP>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
An epoxy based polymer with nonlinear optical azo chromophores was des igned to contain anionic groups to induce water solubility and self as sembly. Using this polyanion with a polycation, multilayers were prepa red on a glass substrate by alternating adsorption from dilute aqueous solutions. The azo chromophores in the confined layer of the polyanio n in the multilayer films self-assemble into a noncentrosymmetric alig nment and demonstrate second order optical nonlinearity (d(33) = 19 pm /V).