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Flowing Afterglow Synthesis of Polymer Films with Nonlinear Optical Properties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Peter Haaland  and
Hao Jiang
Peter Haaland
Affiliation:
Wright Laboratory Materials Directorate, WL/MLPJ, WPAFB, OH 45433
Hao Jiang
Affiliation:
Wright Laboratory Materials Directorate, WL/MLPJ, WPAFB, OH 45433
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Abstract

Extensively conjugated polymer films with excellent morphology, homogeneity, robustness, and nonlinear optical coefficients have been synthesized in the flowing afterglow of a lowpressure argon plasma. Polymers of benzene, thiophene, furan, and napthalene are among the systems studied. The polymers, which grow by accretion of positive ions through a low-voltage sheath, have bulk and surface textures which scale systematically with film thickness. The hopes and perils of employing these new materials as active elements in gradient-index reflectors and optical switches will be described, as will the link between morphology and deposition mechanism.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 374: Symposia ZB – Materials for Optical Limiting , 1994 , 123
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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