Organic Nanophotonics

✍ Scribed by Paras N. Prasad (auth.), Fabrice Charra, Vladimir M. Agranovich, François Kajzar (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 498
• Series: NATO Science Series 100
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Photonics concerns the generation, transport, processing and detection of light. It underlies a large amount of industrial activity, mainly devoted to information technology, telecommunications, environmental monitoring, biomedical science and instrumentation.

The field has received a powerful impetus recently with the introduction of nanoscale concepts. Moreover, organic materials now appear as key components in photonic devices such as light-emitting diodes, integrated lasers, or photovoltaic cells. Organic molecular systems offer unique opportunities in nanophotonics since both top-down and bottom-up strategies can be pursued towards the nanoscale.

This book gathers the proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop on "Organic Nanophotonics", held in Aix-en-Provence, France, August 25-29, 2002. It constitutes a snapshot of the state of the art in the novel, emerging research area of nanophotonics based on organic molecules and materials.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Nanophotonics: An Exciting Emerging Field....Pages 1-9
AFOSR Interests in Organic Nanophotonics....Pages 11-15
Optical Properties and Energy Transport in Dendrimers....Pages 17-30
Photoswitchable Molecular Receptors and Nanostructures on their Basis....Pages 31-45
Molecules in Motion: Towards Hydrogen Bond-Assembled Molecular Machines....Pages 47-56
Polymeric β-Dicarbonyl Compounds as Structural Basis for Intelligent Systems with Multifunctional Nature....Pages 57-71
Charge Transfer in Molecular Logical Device Possessing Different Molecular Bridges....Pages 73-79
Tunnelling Induced Fluorescence as a Probe of Electromagnetic Interaction at Nanometre Proximity....Pages 81-91
STM-Induced Light Emission: Excitation and Time-Resolved Spectroscopy....Pages 93-102
Differential Reflection Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Highly Ordered Films of PTCDA on Au(111)....Pages 103-117
STM-Induced Photoemission at Solid-Liquid Interface....Pages 119-126
XYZ on a Chip: Nanoscale fabrication, fluidics, and optics directed toward applications within biology and medicine....Pages 127-138
New Organic Dendrimers with Greatly Enhanced Multi-Photon Absorption for Photonics Applications....Pages 139-153
Dendritic Polymers for Optical Applications....Pages 155-161
Magnetic and Morphologic Characterisation of Some Substituted Ferrites Synthesised by a Non-Conventional Method....Pages 163-168
Dendritic Polyesters for Optical Applications....Pages 169-176
Nonlinear Optical Study of Fullerene-Doped Conjugated Systems: New Materials for Nanophotonics Applications....Pages 177-192
Transport and Optical Properties of DNA....Pages 193-206
Dynamics of Eosin Y Encapsulated in a Fourth Generation Functionalised POPAM Dendrimer....Pages 207-216
Protein Nanostructures Light Control for Data Storage....Pages 217-230
Highly Efficient Multiphoton Absorption in a New Quadrupolar Heterocyclic Dye....Pages 231-240
Nanoprecise Self-Assembly of Electro-Optic and Electroluminescent Molecular Arrays....Pages 241-263
Mesoscopic Aggregation Control of Organic Fluorophores in Dewetted Thin Films....Pages 265-277
Nonlinear-Optical Properties of Self-Assembled Molecular J-Aggregates of Pseudoisocyanine in Nanometer Films....Pages 279-290
Cavity Polaritons in Organic Materials....Pages 291-315
Photoinduced Light Assisted Patterning of Azopolymer Films: Towards a New Process for Nanostructuration....Pages 317-325
Mapping the Dipolar Radiation of Copper Nanoparticles Using a Photosensitive Film....Pages 327-332
Collision Induced Light Scattering by SF 6 — Isotropic and Anisotropic Spectra....Pages 333-338
Sub-Microscopic Probing of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Enhancement of Second Harmonic Generation of Nano-Structured Gold Surfaces....Pages 339-353
Structural and Dynamic Studies of the Polar Orientation Induced by Corona Poling and All-Optical Poling in Crosslinkable Polymer Thin Films....Pages 355-366
Characterization of Nonlinear Optical Parameters of Metal-Doped Polyvinylpyrrolidone Nanostructures and Organic Dye Molecules....Pages 367-384
Novel Heterocycle-Based Two-Photon Absorbing Dyes....Pages 385-393
3D Characterization of Molecular Photo-Orientation: Application to All-Optical Poling....Pages 395-404
Control of Light Emission Properties of Electroluminescent Diodes by Surface Patterning....Pages 405-412
Photon Statistics of a Single Photon Source....Pages 413-422
Single Molecule Optically Controlled Current Switch: Beyond the Electrostatic Approach....Pages 423-436
Fluorescent Photochromic Diarylethene Oligomers....Pages 437-446
The Search for Highly Polar Betainic Type Molecules for Electro-Optical Applications....Pages 447-462
Intermolecular Charge Transfer Multilayers for NLO Applications....Pages 463-474
Novel Monomeric Amorphous Material for Second-Order NLO: The Low-Molecular-Weight Organic Glasses....Pages 475-482
Functional Polymeric Photonic Crystals for Infra-Red Bands by Guided Colloidal Assembly Techniques....Pages 483-492
Back Matter....Pages 493-502

✦ Subjects

Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices;Condensed Matter Physics;Physical Chemistry;Inorganic Chemistry;Organic Chemistry