Parutagouda Shankaragouda Patil

Bio: Parutagouda Shankaragouda Patil is an academic researcher from Mangalore University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dihedral angle & Ring (chemistry). The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 187 publications receiving 2089 citations. Previous affiliations of Parutagouda Shankaragouda Patil include Techno India.

Ultrafast optical nonlinearities and figures of merit in acceptor-substituted 3,4,5-trimethoxy chalcone derivatives: Structure-property relationships

Abstract: By performing both Z-scan and transient transmission measurements with 130 fs laser pulses in the near infrared region, we investigated structure-property relationships for χ(3) in acceptor-substituted 3,4,5-trimethoxy chalcone derivatives. We determined all nonlinear parameters, including two-photon absorption (2PA) cross section, 2PA-induced excited-state absorption (ESA) cross section, microscopic second-order hyperpolarizability, and lifetime of the excited state in these molecules. We found that the microscopic second-order hyperpolarizability γR and 2PA cross section σ2PA in chalcone derivatives increase as the acceptor strength of the molecules increases, which demonstrates an enhancement in optical nonlinearities by simple structural variations. We evaluated the one-photon, two-photon, and effective three-photon figures of merit for acetone solutions of chalcone derivatives at irradiance of 100 GW/cm2. Furthermore, we observed optical limiting behavior in these compounds, which result from both 2P...

An investigation on the key features of a D–π–A type novel chalcone derivative for opto-electronic applications

Abstract: The current study is focused on the donor–bridge–acceptor (D–π–A) type of novel organic charge transport and non-linear optical material, 1-(4-bromophenyl)-3-(2,4,5-trimethoxyphenyl) prop-2-en-1-one (2,4,5-TMBC) to spotlight its various important properties through experimental and quantum chemical approaches. The compound 2,4,5-TMBC was synthesized via a Claisen–Schmidt condensation reaction and its single crystal was grown by a slow evaporation solution growth technique. FT-IR and FT-Raman spectra of 2,4,5-TMBC were obtained and investigated. The molecular geometry of 2,4,5-TMBC was optimized by HF, B3LYP, CAM-B3LYP, wb97xd and LC-BLYP methods using the 6-31G* basis set. The calculated geometrical parameters and vibrational spectra are in good agreement with the experimental results. Time dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) has been applied to investigate the optical properties of the title compound. The absorption wavelength calculated at the TD-B3LYP/6-31G* level of theory in the gas phase was in good agreement with the experimental value (∼400 nm) when compared with other methods. The HOMO–LUMO energy gap was calculated at all the applied levels of theory. The total dipole moment, polarizability, anisotropy of polarizability and static first and total hyperpolarizability values of 2,4,5-TMBC were calculated at different levels of theory. The dipole moment and first hyperpolarizability values are found to be many folds (2 and 56 times calculated at B3LYP) higher than urea. It is also expected that 2,4,5-TMBC would be electron transport material due to its smaller electron reorganization energy value. The study of non-linear optical (NLO) properties shows that 2,4,5-TMBC would be an outstanding candidate for NLO device applications.

Two-photon-induced excited-state absorption: Theory and experiment

Abstract: We develop an open-aperture (OA) Z scan and nonlinear transmission theory of two-photon-induced excited-state absorption, under the excitation of spatial Gaussian laser pulses with temporal Gaussian and hyperbolic secant profiles. The found analytic expressions allow us to straightforwardly fit the OA Z-scan trace and the nonlinear transmission curve, for convenient extraction of the nonlinear absorption coefficients. As a test, the two-photon-induced excited-state absorption in a chalcone derivative of 3,4-dimethoxy-4′-fluorochalcone is explored by performing femtosecond Z-scan measurement and is analyzed by our theory.

I and i

Abstract: There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality. Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

Ab initio calculation of vibrational absorption and circular dichroism spectra using density functional force fields

Abstract: : The unpolarized absorption and circular dichroism spectra of the fundamental vibrational transitions of the chiral molecule, 4-methyl-2-oxetanone, are calculated ab initio. Harmonic force fields are obtained using Density Functional Theory (DFT), MP2, and SCF methodologies and a 5S4P2D/3S2P (TZ2P) basis set. DFT calculations use the Local Spin Density Approximation (LSDA), BLYP, and Becke3LYP (B3LYP) density functionals. Mid-IR spectra predicted using LSDA, BLYP, and B3LYP force fields are of significantly different quality, the B3LYP force field yielding spectra in clearly superior, and overall excellent, agreement with experiment. The MP2 force field yields spectra in slightly worse agreement with experiment than the B3LYP force field. The SCF force field yields spectra in poor agreement with experiment.The basis set dependence of B3LYP force fields is also explored: the 6-31G* and TZ2P basis sets give very similar results while the 3-21G basis set yields spectra in substantially worse agreements with experiment. jg

Nonlinear Optical Materials for the Smart Filtering of Optical Radiation.

Abstract: The control of luminous radiation has extremely important implications for modern and future technologies as well as in medicine. In this Review, we detail chemical structures and their relevant photophysical features for various groups of materials, including organic dyes such as metalloporphyrins and metallophthalocyanines (and derivatives), other common organic materials, mixed metal complexes and clusters, fullerenes, dendrimeric nanocomposites, polymeric materials (organic and/or inorganic), inorganic semiconductors, and other nanoscopic materials, utilized or potentially useful for the realization of devices able to filter in a smart way an external radiation. The concept of smart is referred to the characteristic of those materials that are capable to filter the radiation in a dynamic way without the need of an ancillary system for the activation of the required transmission change. In particular, this Review gives emphasis to the nonlinear optical properties of photoactive materials for the functi...