Polymeric Ultrathin Films for Applications in Opto-Electronics: A White Paper.

摘要

The Polymeric Ultrathin Films Program (PUFS) was initiated at CD during the Fall of 1984. It is a multidisciplinary program of research and graduate education involving faculty from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Stephen T. Kowel, Andrew Dienes, and Andre Knoesen), the Department of Chemical Engineering (Pieter Stroeve, Brian G. Higgins, and Robert Powell), the Department of Physics (Lawrence B. Coleman), and the Department of Applied Science (Yin Yeh), and their students. Since the Summer of 1986, a close collaboration has developed with scientists at the Chemistry Division, Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California. Thus, the program now includes efforts by Dr. Geoffrey Lindsay and a Post Doctoral Fellow, Dr. Robert Hall, in organic and synthetic chemistry, as well as deposition of ultrathin films, evaluation of film properties, and applications work carried out at UCD. The primary focus of our work is film systems for opto-electronics, especially optical signal conditioning, hybrid computing, and sensing. Some project elements devoted to evaluation of optical fibers and planar waveguides are performed by Professor Richard Selfridge in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Support has come from the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, Rome Air Development Center, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the National Science Foundation. (ERA citation 13:056739)