Versatile Synthesis of Small NLO-Active Molecules Forming Amorphous Materials with Spontaneous Second-Order NLO Response
- 26 November 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 125 (51) , 15744-15745
Abstract
A novel synthetic approach to a series of bulky triarylamines substituted by various electron-withdrawing groups and forming amorphous materials is presented. Under vacuum evaporation, thin films with high optical quality are obtained and exhibit spontaneous second-order nonlinear optical activity. This unprecedented result is likely due to subtle balance between strong dipole−dipole interactions and steric crowding causing self-assembly and noncentrosymmetric local ordering, stable up to one year.Keywords
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