Comparative studies on structure–nonlinearity relationships in a series of novel second-order nonlinear optical chromophores with different aromatic amine donors
作者:Fenggang Liu、Yuhui Yang、Haoran Wang、Jialei Liu、Chaolei Hu、Fuyang Huo、Shuhui Bo、Zhen Zhen、Xinhou Liu、Ling Qiu
DOI:10.1016/j.dyepig.2015.05.003
日期:2015.9
A series of second-order nonlinear optical chromophores containing an identical pi-bridge and electron acceptor but different, aromatic amine electron-donating groups have been synthesized and systematically investigated. The donors studied here include traditional donors carbazole, triphenylamine and N,N-diethylaniline and novel donor phenothiazine, phenoxazine and N-(4-methoxyphenyl)phenoxazine. The ultraviolet absorption, solvatochromic, redox properties, density functional theory calculations, thermal stabilities and electro-optic activities of these chromophores were systematically studied to compare the strength of the donors and illustrate the structure-performance relationships within six chromophores. The results show that the new donors have stronger electron-donating ability than traditional donors. Moreover, they show reduced energy gap, much larger molecular quadratic hyperpolarizability (mu beta) and r(33) value. Exemplified by the N-(4-methoxyphenyl)phenoxazine chromophore, it showed nearly three times higher mu beta and more than four times higher r(33) value than that of the N-hexylcarbazole containing chromophore. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.