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Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Paras N. Prasad

    1. State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

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  2. Donald R. Ulrich

    1. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, USA

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers

    1. Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers: An Overview

      • Donald R. Ulrich
      Pages 1-11

  3. Nonlinear Optical Polymers

    1. Microscopic Origin of Second Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Structures

      • A. F. Garito, K. Y. Wong, O. Zamani-Khamiri
      Pages 13-39

    2. Design, Ultrastructure, and Dynamics of Nonlinear Optical Effects in Polymeric Thin Films

      • Paras N. Prasad
      Pages 41-67

    3. New Nonlinear Organic Crystals for Ultrafast Infra-red Optical Processing

      • J. Zyss
      Pages 69-105

    4. Electric-Field Poling of Nonlinear Optical Polymers

      • C. S. Willand, S. E. Feth, M. Scozzafava, D. J. Williams, G. D. Green, J. I. Weinschenk III et al.
      Pages 107-120

    5. Frequency and Temperature Variations of Cubic Susceptibility in Polydiacetylenes

      • P. A. Chollet, F. Kajzar, J. Messier
      Pages 121-135

    6. Femtosecond Studies of Dephasing and Phase Conjugation With Incoherent Light

      • Takayoshi Kobayashi, Toshiaki Hattori, Akira Terasaki, Kenji Kurokawa
      Pages 137-155

    7. Studies of Monomer and Polymer Monolayers Using Optical Second and Third Harmonic Generation

      • Garry Berkovic, Y. R. Shen
      Pages 157-168

    8. Development of Polymeric Nonlinear Optical Materials

      • R. N. DeMartino, E. W. Choe, G. Khanarian, D. Haas, T. Leslie, G. Nelson et al.
      Pages 169-187

    9. Orientationally Ordered Electro-Optic Materials

      • K. D. Singer, M. G. Kuzyk, J. E. Sohn
      Pages 189-204

    10. Conformational Transitions in Polydiacetylene Solutions

      • D. G. Peiffer, T. C. Chung, D. N. Schulz, P. K. Agarwal, R. T. Garner, M. W. Kim et al.
      Pages 205-215

    11. Molecular Engineering Approaches to Molecular and Macromolecular Nonlinear Optical Materials: Recent Theoretical and Experimental Results

      • D. Li, J. Yang, C. Ye, M. A. Ratner, G. Wong, T. J. Marks
      Pages 217-228

    12. Poled Copoly(Vinylidene Fluoride-Trifluoroethylene) as a Host for Guest Nonlinear Optical Molecules

      • Philip Pantelis, Julian R. Hill, Graham J. Davies
      Pages 229-241

  4. Electroactive Polymers

    1. Electroactive Polymers: Consequenses of Electron Delocalization

      • Larry R. Dalton
      Pages 243-271

    2. Optical Properties of Poly(p-Phenylene Vinylene)

      • Jan Obrzut, Frank E. Karasz
      Pages 273-280

    3. Holes, Electrons, Polarons, and Bipolarons and the Thermodynamics of Electrically Active Dopants in Conducting Polymers

      • H. Reiss, Dai-uk Kim
      Pages 281-301

    4. Transient Current Spectroscopy in Polymeric Films

      • E. Muller-Horsche, D. Haarer, H. Scher
      Pages 303-313

    5. Electrochemistry of Polyaniline: Consideration of a Dimer Model

      • Walter W. Focke, Gary E. Wnek
      Pages 315-324
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About this book

This treatise is a compendium of papers based on invited talks presented at the American Chemical Society Symposium on Electroactive Polymers which covered nonlinear optical polymers and conducting polymers, the common denominator being the correlated pi-electron structures. The improved understanding of the consequences of pi-electron delocalization upon nonlinear optical properties and charge carrier dynamics has laid the foundation for the rapid development and application of the electroresponse of conjugated polymers. As a result, the area of electroactive and nonlinear optical polymers is emerging as a frontier of sCience and technology. It is a multidisciplinary field that is bringing together scientists and engineers of varied background to interface their expertise. The recent explosion of interest in this area stems from the prospect of utilizing nonlinear optical effects for optical switching and logic operations in optical computing, optical signal processing, optical sensing and optical fiber communications. Polymers and organic are rapidly becoming one of the major material classes for nonlinear optical applications along with multiple quantum wells, ferroelectrics and other oxides, and direct band-gap semiconductors. The reasons for this lie in the unique molecular structures of polymers and organics and the ability to molecularly engineer the architecture of these structures through chemical synthesis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA

    Paras N. Prasad

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research, USA

    Donald R. Ulrich

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers

  • Editors: Paras N. Prasad, Donald R. Ulrich

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0953-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-42768-8Due: 01 March 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8262-4Published: 07 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-0953-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 448

  • Topics: Organic Chemistry

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