Push-Pull Heptamethines Near the Cyanine Limit Exhibiting Large Quadratic Electro-Optic Effect

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Veröffentlicht in:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.). - 1998. - 36(2024), 17 vom: 08. Apr., Seite e2306089
1. Verfasser: Chen, Weilong (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Liu, Taili, Zou, Jie, Zhang, Di, Tse, Man Kit, Tsang, Sai-Wing, Luo, Jingdong, Jen, Alex K-Y
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
Schlagworte:Journal Article cyanine‐like figure‐of‐merits push–pull heptamethines quadratic electro‐optic transmission‐mode electromodulation
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Zusammenfassung:© 2023 Wiley‐VCH GmbH.
Harnessing the quadratic electro-optic (QEO) of near-infrared polymethine chromophores over broad telecom wavelength bands is a subject of immense potential but remains largely under-investigated. Herein a series of push-pull heptamethines containing the tricyanofuran (TCF) acceptors and indoline or benzo[e]indoline donors are reported. These dipolar chromophores can attain a highly delocalized "cyanine-like" electronic ground state in solvents spanning a wide range of polarities, in some cases even closer to the ideal polymethine state than symmetrical cyanines. A transmission-mode electromodulation spectroscopy is used to study the electric-field-induced changes in optical absorption and refraction of polymer films doped with heptamethine chromophores, and large and thermally stable QEO effect with high efficiency-loss figure-of-merits that compare favorably to those from dipolar polyenes in poled or unpoled polymers and III-V semiconductors is obtained. The study opens a path for developing organic materials based on cyanine-like merocyanines for complementary metal oxide semiconductor -compatible, fast, efficient, and low-loss electro-optic modulation
Beschreibung:Date Revised 25.04.2024
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1521-4095
DOI:10.1002/adma.202306089