噻二唑衍生物分子的电子光谱与三阶非线性光学性质

含噻二唑环偶氮类芳香有机化合物具有良好的有机非线性光学性能.采用密度泛函理论B3LYP方法和6-311++G(d,p)基组对6个噻二唑衍生物分子进行结构优化与频率计算,运用含时密度泛函理论对其吸收光谱进行理论计算,采用有限场方法及自编程序计算其三阶非线性光学性质(NLO).结果表明,6个分子的吸收波长在361~383nm范围内,属于近紫外区.组成噻二唑衍生物分子的羟基苯环与噻二唑环均不共面,-CH3或Cl引入到羟基苯环的邻、间、对位后,其共面程度与三阶NLO系数γ均按邻、间、对位取代递减.同一位置,引入-CH3比引入Cl原子的三阶NLO系数γ大.因此,在羟基苯环的邻位引入较强的供电子基,可以设计成为良好的三阶非线性光学材料.     

Y型均三嗪类衍生物三阶非线性光学性质研究

采用密度泛函理论B3LYP/6-31+G*方法对含Y型均三嗪类衍生物的6个分子(Y1-Y6)进行几何构型优化,对其最优构型采用TD-DFT (TDB3 LYP/6-31+G*)计算电子吸收光谱,用有限场FF方法及自编程序计算三阶非线性光学(NLO)性质.结果表明,6个含Y型均三嗪类有机分子的三阶非线性光学系数γ值为1010数量级个原子单位(10-30 esu),显示出良好的三阶非线性光学性能.在其三支链的末端引入不同的推、拉电子基团(Y2→Y6),对其电子光谱和三阶非线性光学响应具有明显的影响.引入强供电子基团,γ增大幅度较大,有利于改善体系的三阶非线性光学性质,从而可获得良好的非线性光学材料.     

Y型均三嗪类衍生物三阶非线性光学性质研究

采用密度泛函理论B3LYP/6-31+G*方法对含Y型均三嗪类衍生物的6个分子(Y1-Y6)进行几何构型优化,对其最优构型采用TD-DFT(TDB3LYP/6-31+G*)计算电子吸收光谱,用有限场FF方法及自编程序计算三阶非线性光学（NLO）性质。结果表明,6个含Y型均三嗪类有机分子的三阶非线性光学系数g值为1010数量级个原子单位(10-30 esu),显示出良好的三阶非线性光学性能。在其三支链的末端引入不同的推、拉电子基团（Y2→Y6）,对其电子光谱和三阶非线性光学响应具有明显的影响。引入强供电子基团,g增大幅度较大,有利于改善体系的三阶非线性光学性质,从而可获得良好的非线性光学材料。     

含苯乙烯桥侧链三枝分子的二阶非线性光学性质

采用密度泛函理论B3LYP/6-311+g(d,p)方法对含苯乙烯桥侧链均三嗪类衍生物的8个分子(Y1-Y8)进行几何构型优化,对其最优构型采用TD-DFT(TDB3LYP/6-311+g(d,p)),计算电子吸收光谱,用有限场FF方法及自编程序计算二阶非线性光学（NLO）性质。结果表明,8个分子的μ（或0）值为104数量级个原子单位(10-29 esu),显示出良好的二阶非线性光学性能。在其三支链的末端引入强供电子基团（如-N(CH3)2或-N(CH2CH3)2）比引入弱供电子基团及吸电子基团,更有利于改善体系的二阶非线性光学性质,从而可获得良好的非线性光学材料。     

Theoretical study on optical and electronic properties of bis-dipolar 1,8-naphthalimide derivatives

A series of donor–π–acceptor type of 1,8-naphthalimide derivatives with ethylene as π-conjugated bridges have been designed to explore their optical and electronic properties as luminescent materials for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The frontier molecular orbital analysis turned out that the vertical electronic transitions of absorption and emission are characteristic as intramolecular charge transfer. The calculations showed that their optical and electronic behaviours are clearly affected by the aromatic substitute groups, but not significantly to the stability of molecules. The calculated results suggest that all the selected candidates are promising as luminescent materials for OLEDs.     

四苯基卟啉类化合物电子光谱和三阶非线性光学性质的理论研究

在B3LYP/6-31+G~*水平计算四个5,10,15,20-四苯基卟啉类化合物的电子光谱和三阶非线性光学性质.结果表明,电子的最大吸收波长在580nm左右,属于可见光区,源于卟啉内HOMO到LUMO的π→π*的电子跃迁.供电子基团的引入将增加电子云密度,致使三阶非线性光学性质增大.吸电子基的引入使卟啉环上的电子云密度减小,导致三阶非线性光学性质减小.含双键或三键的吸电子基团使电子云密度增大,致使三阶非线性光学性质增大.     

Modulating the molecular third-order optical nonlinearity by curved surface of carbon skeleton

Curved π bowl compounds represent another class of the completely conjugated materials with quantum dot nature. Non-equivalent hybridisation type from rim to hub carbon atoms in curved π bowl compound triggers anisotropic physical properties. With density functional method (CAM-B3LYP) and response theory calculations, curved π bowl compounds exhibit large radial and axial component ratio for its polarisability and the second hyperpolarisability. More importantly, they possess larger effective mass second hyperpolarisability (γ^mass) and nondiagonal components (γ_xxyy) compared to C₆₀. Except the static properties, the dispersion characters of dynamic cubic response of curved π bowl compounds have been analysed in large frequency range.     

Theoretical insight into the substituent effects on linear and nonlinear optical properties of azobenzene‐based chromophores

The linear and nonlinear optical properties of 4 kinds of experimental synthesized azobenzene‐based chromophores were investigated by different density functional theories (DFTs) upon the electronic structures. The structure‐property relationship was studied on each single molecule either in the gas phase or in diethylether and tetrahydrofuran (THF) solutions. The substituent effect on optical properties was revealed by checking the positions of substituent groups, and the influence of dynamic perturbation to the optical nonlinearity was investigated by simulating the experimental excitation. The results revealed that the substituent in the meta‐position of the azobenzene group affects the optical properties more significantly than that in the ortho‐position, which is in agreement with the experimental finding. The modulation of molecular hyperpolarizability of bridge‐substituted azobenzene derived by dynamic perturbation is not recommended because of the reduced dynamic hyperpolarizability relative to the static one. The different functions of the DFT method hardly affect the calculated results, while solvent effects of diethylether and THF solutions are significant on the optical properties, especially for optical nonlinearity. The information derived from the single chromophore may be helpful in the design and preparation of high‐performance nonlinear optical materials in further.     

Theoretical study of the optical,electronic, and charge-transfer properties of 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(phenylethynyl)benzene derivatives for solar cell applications

A series of 1,2,4,5-tetrakis(phenylethynyl)benzene derivatives has been investigated at the CAM-B3LYP/6-31G(d) and TD-CAM-B3LYP/6-31?+?G(d,p) levels to design materials with high performance with respect to suitable frontier molecular orbitals (FMOs), broad absorption spectra, and better and balanced charge-transfer properties. The calculated results reveal that the molecule possessing benzene has the largest torsion angle of these derivatives. Different branches have a slight influence on the distributions of the FMOs of the molecules. 2-vinyl-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene branches display a small HOMO–LUMO gap corresponding to red shifts of the absorption spectra. These molecules are potential ambipolar charge-transport materials under the appropriate operating conditions.     

三苯胺衍生物分子非线性光学性质的理论研究

在密度泛函理论水平上,利用响应函数方法,研究了1-{(1E)-2-[4-(二苯胺基)苯基]乙烯基}-4-[4-N,N-二甲胺]苯(PVMB)和1-[(1E)-2-(4-(1E)-2-{4-[4-N,N-二甲胺]苯基}乙烯基)苯基]苯胺}苯基)乙烯基]-4-[4-N,N-二甲胺]苯(DPVMB)两分子的双光子吸收特性.计算结果表明,这两个化合物都具有较好的双光子吸收特性,且具有两分支结构的DPVMB分子比具有单支结构的PVMB分子有更强的双光子吸收强度.计算数值结果和实验结果符合地较好.     

Theoretical study on the electronic structures and properties of diindolocarbazole isomers

The objective of this work is to provide an in‐depth interpretation of the electronic structures and optical properties of diindolocarbazole isomers. A systematic study of these different structures caused by the linkage pattern was performed via theoretical calculations. The optimized geometries, electronic properties, frontier molecular orbitals, ionization potentials, electron affinities, reorganization energies, and absorption and emission spectra of these isomers have been calculated and analyzed. Based on the detailed comparisons, the diindolocarbazoles act as candidates of different functional materials for optoelectronic application was predicted and the theoretical reference for the synthesis efforts and experimental investigation was provided. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Theoretical study on the nonlinear optical properties of phenylenes and influencing factors

A systematic investigation of the hyperpolarisabilities of substituted p‐poly‐phenylenes is presented using different quantum mechanical approaches, including density functional theory and Møller–Plesset (MP2) methods. A medium‐sized basis set Hartree–Fock (HF) hyperpolarisability calculation based on either a density functional theory (DFT) or MP2 geometry gives reliable results at moderate computational costs when comparing with experimental data. A longer phenylene chain leads to a maximum in the per‐unit increase of the investigated property between 3 and 4 repeat units. Changing the underlying geometry from the minimum helix to a planar orientation leads to a significant increase in β, again dependent on the chain length. Terminal para‐substituents and their influence are studied and categorised. For push–pull groups, the substituent effects are mainly additive, allowing the design of functionalised phenylenes as molecular building blocks for nanofibres with tailored nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Theoretical investigation of two‐photon absorption and fluorescence properties of cypridina luciferin‐based derivatives: 2,3,5‐trisubstituted pyrazine compounds

Two‐photon fluorescent probe materials are significant for achieving observation of living phenomena in entire organs and tissues. To explore new materials with high fluorescence and large two‐photon absorption (TPA) cross section, a series of 2,3,5‐trisubstituted pyrazine derivatives were designed. Their equilibrium geometries, one‐photon absorption, TPA, and luminescence properties have been studied by using density functional theory (DFT), time‐dependent DFT, and Zerner's intermediate neglect of differential overlap program. The results show that the introduction of styrene groups to 2,3,5‐trisubstituted pyrazine derivatives can efficiently increase the conjugated effect and enhance the TPA activity. Moreover, the luminescence properties of 2,3,5‐trisubstituted pyrazine derivatives were compared, and the effect of three substituents on the fluorescence of trisubstituted pyrazine derivatives was analyzed by means of different contribution of the basis functions localized on pyrazine fragment into the highest occupied molecular orbital and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital. The oscillator strengths in the excited state (?_em) for the pyrazine derivatives substituted by styryl are larger than that of other derivatives with acetylamino and indole groups substituted at 2‐site and 5‐site of the pyrazine core, and the ?_em of 3‐indolyl pyrazine derivatives is larger than that of 3‐styrene pyrazine derivatives. It suggests that the styrene group has a great influence on the luminescence property. In addition, the indole group substituted at 3‐site of the pyrazine derivatives can also promote the fluorescence property. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

First-principles study of the electronic and optical properties of ZnO nanowires

The geometric, energetic, electronic structures and optical properties of ZnO nanowires (NWs) with hexagonal cross sections are investigated by using the first-principles calculation of plane wave ultra-soft pseudo-potential technology based on the density functional theory (DFT). The calculated results reveal that the initial Zn-O double layers merge into single layers after structural relaxations, the band gap and binding energies decrease with the increase of the ZnO nanowire size. Those properties show great dimension and size dependence. It is also found that the dielectric functions of ZnO NWs have different peaks with respect to light polarization, and the peaks of ZnO NWs exhibit a significant blueshift in comparison with those of bulk ZnO. Our results gives some reference to the thorough understanding of optical properties of ZnO, and also enables more precise monitoring and controlling during the growth of ZnO materials to be possible.     

Linear and non-linear optical properties of hetero-cyclic aromatic polymers

We investigated linear and non-linear optical properties of non-fused and fully fused hetero-cyclic thiophene, selenophene and pyrrole oligomers. We found that these oligomers show relatively better environmental stability in their fused form than non-fused geometry. Linear extrapolation of calculated energy gap between highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) in the polymer limit exhibits extremely good agreement with experimentally reported band gap for thiophene, selenophene and pyrrole oligomers in their non-fused form. The lowest singlet dipole allowed excited state was calculated using time-dependent density functional theory and extrapolated optical gap estimated were in good agreement with experimental observation. Static linear and first hyperpolarisabilities were also studied as a function of chain length for donor–acceptor substituted polymers. The (hyper)polarisabilities are increasing as a function of chain length in both forms although the non-fused pyrrole oligomers show slow variation. Our study on hyperpolarisability also shows that donor–acceptor substituted non-fused selenophene oligomers are most promising candidates to contribute significantly in non-linear photonics and all fully fused hetero-cyclic oligomers show strong NLO responses.     

First-principles study of structural,electronic and optical properties of ZnF_2

The structural, electronic, and optical properties of rutile-, CaC12-, and PdF2-ZnF2 are calculated by the plane-wave pseudopotential method within the density functional theory. The calculated equilibrium lattice constants are in reasonable agreement with the available experimental and other calculated results. The band structures show that the rutile-, CaCl2-, and PdF2-ZnF2 are all direct band insulator. The band gaps are 3.63, 3.62, and 3.36 eV, respectively. The contribution of the different bands was analyzed by the density of states. The Mulliken population analysis is performed. A mixture of covalent and weak ionic chemical bonding exists in ZnF2. Furthermore, in order to understand the optical properties of ZnF2, the dielectric function, absorption coefficient, refractive index, electronic energy loss spectroscopy, and optical reflectivity are also performed in the energy range from 0 to 30 eV. It is found that the main absorption parts locate in the UV region for ZnF2. This is the first quantitative theoretical prediction of the electronic and optical properties of ZnF2 compound, and it still awaits experimental confirmation.     

高压对氮化硼纳米管的几何结构、电子结构和光学性质的影响

运用密度泛函理论平面波赝势方法(PWP)和广义梯度近似(GGA),计算研究了纳米管BN(5,5)在不同压力条件下的几何结构、电子结构和光学性质. 在高压条件下管口形状发生了较大的变化. 与闪锌矿结构BN比较分析发现两种结构间存在一些性质上的差异：首先,在外压力作用下,BN(5,5)纳米管的带隙随压力增大而减小,变化率为-0.01795eV/GPa,而闪锌矿结构BN随压力增大而增大;其次光吸收谱在压力条件下,没有和闪锌矿结构BN一样发生“蓝移”,相反在红外方向有所拓展;但纳米管BN(5,5)电子的转移方向和 关键词： 氮化硼纳米管 密度泛函理论(DFT) 电子结构     

4-N-甲基苯乙烯砒啶盐衍生物非线性光学性质的理论研究

设计了9种4-N-甲基苯乙烯砒啶盐衍生物分子,以密度泛函B3LYP/6-31G方法优化的构型为基础,采用耦合微扰(CPHF)方法研究了体系的非线性光学性质,对体系的电荷布居、吸收光谱及前线分子轨道等性质进行了分析,发现用线性关系对各分子一阶静态超极化率、基态和激发态偶极矩差、激发能及取代基给电子能力之间的关系进行描述是可行的,而且该分子体系的非线性光学响应完全可用二能级模型近似处理.     

联萘基-芘衍生物结构和ECD光谱性质的理论研究

采用密度泛函理论方法研究s-联萘基-芘分子结构、联萘二面角、能隙、电子的圆二色(electronic circular dichroism, ECD)光谱等性质,系统考察其溶剂效应和取代基效应.研究发现,在苯、四氯化碳、氯仿、环己烷和水五种溶剂中,s-联萘基-芘分子的结构和ECD光谱等性质均相似.然而,在氯基、甲基、羟基、甲氧基和苯基五种取代基中,苯基取代基可以调节s-联萘基-芘分子的结构和ECD光谱等性质.     

Theoretical studies on mechanical and electronic properties of s-triazine sheet

Abstract

Mechanical and electronic properties of s-triazine sheet are studied using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. The in-plane stiffness and bulk modulus for s-triazine sheet are found to be less than that of heptazine. The reduction can be related to the nature of the covalent bonds connecting the adjacent sheets and the number of atoms per unit cell. The Poisson’s ratio of s-triazine sheet is half the value to that of graphene. Additionally, the calculated values of the two critical strains (elastic and yielding points) of s-triazine sheet are in the same order of magnitude to that for heptazine which was calculated using MD simulations in the literature. It is also demonstrated that s-triazine sheet can withstand larger tension in the plastic region. These results established a stable mechanical property for s-triazine sheet. We found a linear relationship of bandgap as a function of bi-axial tensile strain within the harmonic elastic region. The reduced steric repulsion of the lone pairs (p_x-, p_y-) causes the p_z-like orbital to shift to high energy, and consequently an increase in the bandgap. We find no electronic properties modulation of the s-triazine sheet under electric field up to a peak value of 10 V/nm. Such noble properties may be useful in future nanomaterial applications.