Realization of New and Enhanced Materials Properties Through Nanostructural Control

摘要

This research focuses on: (1) Organic electro-optic materials with the objective of realizing materials characterized by electro-optic coefficients greater than 300 pm/V at telecommunication wavelengths and which pass telecordial standards. New processing techniques were developed for fabrication 3-D devices and circuits and for achieving low insertion loss electro-optic devices including active wavelength division multiplexing WDM transmitter/receiver systems. During this period of time, the Dalton research group served as the national resource for state-of-the-art electro-optic materials providing materials to DoD laboratories, DoE labs, NIST researchers industry, and academic researchers. (2) Metal core dendrimer materials were developed for applications as sensors organic light emitting diodes, and light harvesting solar cell coatings. Materials were designed for improved emission properties and photochemical stability both by systematic design of the chelated metal and by design of the surrounding dendrimer structure. Materials were provided to DoD and NASA laboratories and to industry.