Functionalized thiophenes : Second-order nonlinear optical materials

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)90-92
Journal / PublicationJournal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 1993
Externally publishedYes

Abstract

It is shown experimentally that the complete replacement of benzene rings with thiophene rings in a donor-acceptor substituted stilbene significantly enhances its second-order nonlinear optical hyperpolarizability (β); results obtained with a series of thiophene-substituted donor-acceptor compounds with different conjugation lengths reveal a power law dependence of βμ on the molecular conjugation length.