• Bale, Denise H.
• Benight, Stephanie
• Kosilkin, Ilya
• Robinson, Bruce H.
• Sullivan, Philip
• Dalton, Larry R.
• Grote, James G.
• Eichinger, Bruce

Abstract

The roles played by various spatially-anisotropic interactions, dielectric permittivity, and optical frequency in determining electro-optic activity in a variety of different types of organic materials is discussed from the perspective of correlated quantum/statistical mechanical methods and measurement techniques for the determination of poling-induced acentric order and molecular first hyperpolarizability. Comparison of experimental and theoretical data suggests that a "first principles" understanding of electro-optic activity in organic materials can be achieved for chromophore/polymer composites; chromophores covalently incorporated into polymers and dendrimers; and for complex binary (and multiple) chromophore-containing organic glasses. Issues associated with integrating organic electro-optic (OEO) materials into all-organic and hybrid OEO/silicon photonic devices are discussed. Conductivity plays a major role in defining the performance of devices and various options for minimizing the undesired effects of conductivity are discussed. © 2010 Old City Publishing, Inc.

Topics

• impedance spectroscopy
• polymer
• glass
• glass
• anisotropic
• composite
• Silicon
• dendrimer