Electro-optic Effect of a Soluble Nonlinear Optical Polyimide Containing Two Different Chromophores with Different Sizes in the Side Chain

Myung Hee Kim; Mai Ha Hoang; Dong Hoon Choi; Min Ju Cho; Hyun Kyung Ju; Dong Wook Kim; Chang Jin Lee

Macromolecular Research, Vol.19, No.4, 403-407, April, 2011

DOI10.1007/s13233-011-0410-2 Export Citation

Electro-optic Effect of a Soluble Nonlinear Optical Polyimide Containing Two Different Chromophores with Different Sizes in the Side Chain

Myung Hee Kim^{1, 2}, Mai Ha Hoang^{1, 3}, Dong Hoon Choi^{1, 3, †}, Min Ju Cho⁴, Hyun Kyung Ju⁵, Dong Wook Kim⁵, and Chang Jin Lee⁵

¹Department of Chemistry, Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Korea University, Seoul, 136-701, Korea
²Liquid Crystal Division/R&D, Merck Advanced Technologies Ltd, Pyongtaek, 451-822, Korea
³, Korea
⁴Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 14260, USA
⁵Advanced Materials Division, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, 305-600, Korea

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A new soluble and thermally stable nonlinear optical (NLO) polyimide was synthesized by adding both tricyanopyrroline (TCP)- and tricyanofuran (TCF)-based NLO chromophores into the polymer backbone. The NLO polyimide (PI-II) bearing two different chromophores with different sizes has a glass transition temperature of 146 ℃ and exhibits good film forming properties. The electro-optic coefficient of the film was 84 pm/V at 1.3 μm under a poling field of 80V/μm, even though PI-II has an unusually high chromophore density of approximately 20 wt% of TCP chromophores and 23 wt% of TCF chromophores. Even with a overall chromophore loading of 43 wt%, no severe aggregation effect was observed for the sample that exhibited a relatively high EO coefficient.

Keywords:soluble polyimide;tricyanopyrroline chromophore;tricyanofuran chromophore;electro-optic effect;thermal stability.

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