화학공학소재연구정보센터
Advanced Functional Materials, Vol.11, No.5, 393-397, 2001
Nanoscale refractive index tuning of siloxane-based self-assembled electro-optic superlattices
The refractive indices of self-assembled organic electro-optic superlattices can be tuned by intercalating high-Z optically transparent group 13 metal oxide sheets into the structures during the self-assembly process. Microstructurally regular acentricity and sizable electro-optic responses are retained in this straightforward synthetic procedure. This "one-pot" all wet-chemistry approach involves: i) layer-by-layer covalent self-assembly of intrinsically acentric multilayers of high-hyperpolarizability chromophores on inorganic oxide substrates, ii) protecting group cleavage to generate a large density of reactive surface hydroxyl sites, iii) self-limiting capping of each chromophore layer with octachlorotrisiloxane, iv) deposition of metal oxide sheets derived from THF solutions of Ga((OC3H7)-C-i)(3) or In((OC3H7)-C-i)(3), and v) covalent capping of the resulting Superlattices.