Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications

Organics are an extraordinarily large class of materials with promising applications for photonics and electronics. Today, organic light emitting diodes for optical displays and polymer waveguides discussed in several of the early OTF meetings have been developed to the point of highly successful commercialization. The development of organic nonlinear optical and optoelectronic materials for optical communications, power generation, data storage, and other applications have not yet reached the same level of maturity but offer the similar levels of promise that the early OLED and polymer waveguides studies showed. Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications describes recent research in materials development, characterization techniques, and device development related to organic thin films for photonic applications.

Warren N. Herman is afiiliated with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland.

Stephen H. Foulger is Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Clemson University.

Steven R. Flom works in the Optical Sciences Division at the Naval Research Laboratory.

Preface

1. Introduction
Warren N. Herman, Steven R. Flom, and Stephen H. Foulger

Part I. Organic Nonlinear Optical Materials and Devices
2. Organic Electro-Optic Materials
Larry R. Dalton, Philip A. Sullivan, Denise Bale, Benjamin Olbricht, Joshua Davies, Stephanie Benight, Ilya Kosilkin, Bruce H. Robinson, Bruce E. Eichinger, and Alex K.-Y. Jen
3. Substituent Effects on Interior Locations of Large Dyes: Changes in First Hyperpolarizability As Predicted by DFT
G. A. Lindsay and A. P. Chafin
4. Molecular Design and Supramolecular Organization of Highly Efficient Nonlinear Optical Chromophores for Exceptional Electro-Optic Properties
Xing-Hua Zhou, Jingdong Luo, Tae-Dong Kim, Sei-Hum Jang, René M. Overney, Larry R. Dalton, and Alex K.-Y. Jen
5. Surface Plasmon Polariton Waveguides in Nonlinear Optical Polymer
Jin Hyoung Lee, Jiuzhi Xue, Wounjhang Park, and Alan Mickelson
6. Photorefractive Polymers for Updatable Holographic Displays
R. A. Norwood, S. Tay, P. Wang, P.-A. Blanche, D. Flores, R. Voorakaranam, W. Lin, J. Thomas, T. Gu, P. St. Hilaire, C. Christenson, M. Yamamoto, and N. Peyghambarian
7. High-Voltage Poling of Bulk Guest-Host Polymers
Robert C. Hoffman, Timothy M. Pritchett, Joshua A. Orlicki, Joseph M. Dougherty, Robert H. Lambeth, Adam M. Rawlett, Warren N. Herman, and Dong Hun Park
8. Photosensitive Polymeric Materials for Two-Photon 3D WORM Optical Data Storage and Microfabrication
Ciceron O. Yanez, Carolina D. Andrade, Sheng Yao, Gheorghe Luchita, Mykhailo V. Bondar, and Kevin D. Belfield
9. Fabrication of High-Performance Optical Devices Using Multiphoton Absorption Polymerization
Linjie Li, George Kumi, Rafael R. Gattass, Erez Gershgoren, Wei-Yen Chen, P.-T. Ho, Warren N. Herman, and John T. Fourkas
10. Phase Scan Technique for Measuring Phase of Complex ?(3) of Nonlinear Polymer Thin Films
Weilou Cao, Yi-Hsing Peng, Yongzhang Leng, Chi H. Lee, Warren N. Herman, and Julius Goldhar

Part II. Organic Optoelectronic Materials and Devices
11. Electroluminescence with Colloidal Particles
Christopher F. Huebner, David D. Evanoff, Jr., and Stephen H. Foulger
12. Coextruded Multilayer All-Polymer Dye Lasers
Joseph Lott, Hyunmin Song, Yeheng Wu, Juefei Zhou, Eric Baer, Anne Hiltner, Christoph Weder, and Kenneth D. Singer
13. Solid State Organic Solar Cells
Paul A. Lane
14. High Fill-Factor Organic Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices Using a Highly Conducting Hole-Doped Polymer Transport Layer
M. Ballarotto, W. N. Herman, and D. B. Romero
15. Photophysical and Photoconductive Properties of Novel Organic Semiconductors
A. D. Platt, J. Day, W. E. B. Shepherd, and O. Ostroverkhova
16. Ultrathin Self-Assembled Organophosphonic Acid Monolayers/Metal Oxides Hybrid Dielectrics for Low-Voltage Field-Effect Transistors
Hong Ma, Orb Acton, Guy Ting, Jae Won Ka, Hin-Lap Yip, and Alex K.-Y. Jen
17. Ultrafast Photoinduced Carrier Dynamics of Organic Semiconductors Measured by Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy
Okan Esenturk, Joseph S. Melinger, Paul A. Lane, and Edwin J. Heilweil
18. Photoinduced Carrier Dynamics in Organic Bulk Heterojunctions Studied by Sub-Picosecond Optical Pump-THz Probe Time Domain Spectroscopy
Yi-Hsing Peng, Weilou Cao, Mihaela Ballarotto, Danilo Romero, Warren N. Herman, and Chi H. Lee