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Jan 1998
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Space technology and applications international forum - 1998. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 420, pp. 749-754 (1998).
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Growth In Microgravity Environments, Other Nonlinear Optical Materials, Photorefractive And Semiconductor Materials
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Crystals grown in space have been shown to be of higher quality than ``earth-grown'' crystals because more defect-free specimens are obtained in the absence of gravity-fueled convection. Defect-free organic crystals are of particular interest because they can exhibit high optical nonlinearities. However, they tend to be brittle and cannot be as easily fabricated into thin films or fibers. Polymers having a controlled supramolecular structure and morphology could be even more promising candidates as NLOM. Our previous NASA work supported the rationale for orienting biopolymers, materials with known supramolecular structure, in an electric field under microgravity conditions in order to optimize optical χ2 non-linearity; the magnitude of the NLO response was directly related to the degree of molecular order within the film. Other related work has demonstrated the potential for processing of χ3 materials such as sols, porphyrins and fullerenes in inert polycarbonate (PC) polymer matrices. Our Phase II SBIR work now focuses on improving upon the NLO activity of NLO-active polymer host systems by using χ3-active dopants. By analogy to microgravity processing of metal/ceramic alloys, the resulting polymer composite should benefit from homogeneous orientation of the NLO-active minor phase within the NLO-active polymer phase and optimize the potential of polymer-based NLOM.
Gresser J. D.
Hsu Yuling
Trantolo D. J.
White Richard L.
Wise D. L.
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