Fabrication of ultrathin films with large third-order nonlinear optical properties. |
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| Authors: | Li Jiang Fushen Lu Qing Chang Yang Liu Huibiao Liu Yuliang Li Wei Xu Guanglei Cui Junpeng Zhuang Xiaofang Li Shu Wang Yinglin Song Daoben Zhu |
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| Institution: | CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Center for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, PR China. |
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| Abstract: | An ultrathin composite film containing anionic Ag-His complexes (His: L-Histidine) and oppositely charged BH-PPV was fabricated by means of the electrostatic layer-by-layer self-assembly technique. UV/Vis spectra showed a continuous deposition process of Ag-His complexes and BH-PPV. The film structure was characterized by using small-angle X-ray diffraction, AFM, and SEM. The nonlinear optical properties of the ultrathin film were studied by using the Z-scan technique with a laser duration of 8 ns at a wavelength of 532 nm. The film sample exhibited a strong nonlinear saturated absorption, with an alpha2 value of -3.9 x 10(-5) mW(-1) and a self-defocusing effect with an n2 value of -4.78 x 10 (-12) m2W(-1). |
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| Keywords: | nonlinear optics self‐assembly silver surface chemistry thin films |
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