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Optical limiting with C 60 in polymethyl methacrylate
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It is shown that the optical-limiting behavior is consistent with excited-state absorption (reverse saturable absorption) as a mechanism, and it is suggested that a higher threshold for optical limiting compared with that of C(60) in toluene is due to nonlinear scattering for the liquid.Abstract:
We demonstrate optical limiting for the C60 fullerene in polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) as a solid polymer host. It is shown that the optical-limiting behavior is consistent with excited-state absorption (reverse saturable absorption) as a mechanism. We suggest that a higher threshold for optical limiting compared with that of C60 in toluene is due to nonlinear scattering for the liquid. The performance of C60 in PMMA is compared with that in chloroaluminum phthalocyanine, N-methylthioacridone, King’s complex, and ruthenium King’s complex in PMMA. Optical damage thresholds are reported.read more
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Photophysical properties of C60
James W. Arbogast,Aleksander P. Darmanyan,Christopher S. Foote,Yves Rubin,François Diederich,Marcos M. Alvarez,Samir J. Anz,Robert L. Whetten +7 more
TL;DR: A number of important photophysical properties of C{sub 60} have been determined, including its lowest triplet state energy (near 33 kcal/mol), lifetime, and triplet-triplet absorption spectrum as mentioned in this paper.
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Optical limiting performance of C60 and C70 solutions
Lee W. Tutt,Alan Kost +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the optical response of solutions of C60 and C70 in methylene chloride and toluene, using 8-ns pulses of 532-nm-wavelength laser light, was investigated.
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Characterization of the soluble all-carbon molecules C60 and C70
Henry O. Ajie,Marcos M. Alvarez,Samir J. Anz,Rainer D. Beck,François Diederich,K. Fostiropoulos,Donald R. Huffman,Wolfgang Kraetschmer,Yves Rubin +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the physical and chemical characterization of two new molecular forms of carbon, C{sub 60} and C {sub 70} were reported. But the results demonstrate a high yield of production (14%) under optimized conditions and reveal only C{ sub 60 and Csub 70 in measurable quantity, in an 85:15 ratio.
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Synthesis and characterization of C60O, the first fullerene epoxide
Kathleen M. Creegan,John Lawrence Robbins,Win K. Robbins,John M. Millar,Rexford D. Sherwood,Paul J. Tindall,Donald M. Cox,John P. McCauley,David R. Jones +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that photooxidation of C{sub 60} in benzene furnishes a single monooxide, C{ sub 60}O, as the sole isolable product.
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Excited-state properties of C60
TL;DR: In this paper, the excited singletstate and triplet-state properties of C 60 in toluene have been measured by picosecond and nanosecond laser-flash photolysis.
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