Kenneth D. Singer

TL;DR: This work finds that attaching conducting organic donor or acceptor groups to the apex of the dendrons leads to supramolecular nanometre-scale columns that contain in their cores π-stacks of donors, acceptors or donor–acceptor complexes exhibiting high charge carrier mobilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the second harmonic coefficient (d33 = 6.0±1.3×10−9 esu, at 1.58 μm wavelength) and the poling process were described by a thermodynamic model that was developed.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between the molecular hyperpolarizability and the macroscopic susceptibility is presented, and the susceptibility is seen to depend on the microscopic order parameters commonly associated with liquid crystals and is discussed in the limits of one-dimensional molecules and poled polymer glasses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the electrooptic phase modulation was measured along with optical second-harmonic generation in thin films of a new copolymer containing a dicyanovinylterminated azo dye side chain.

TL;DR: In this article, an infinite dilution extrapolation procedure for determining the molecular second order optical susceptibility β using dc induced second harmonic generation was developed, and the effects of solute-solute and solvent-solvent interactions are minimized by this procedure, and how several local field models used in the procedure affect the calculation of β.