Novel Optically Nonlinear and Luminescent Conjugated Polymers

这个综合项目涉及两所不同大学的三个部门的合作。将研究适用于光电子工业的新型导电聚合物，并将包括基于将异质元素掺入聚合物碳骨架结构的新型有机硅聚合物的合成以及通过各种不同技术对其进行表征。还将探索生产这些聚合物的均匀薄膜、涂层和纤维的加工方法，这些方法将适用于光调制器和开关或电致发光（EL）器件等光学器件。这些新聚合物中的一些将通过提供稳定的可处理简并基态聚合物来支持带电孤子或EL系统，从而在物理和化学界引起相当大的科学兴趣，其中非衰变过程将被详细研究。该项目由材料研究司和电气和通信系统司共同支持。

This composite project involves the collaboration of three departments in two separate universities. Novel conducting polymers that will be suitable for the optoelectronics industry will be studied, and will include the synthesis of new organosilicon polymers based on the incorporation of heteroelements into the carbon backbone structure of the polymers and their characterization by a variety of different techniques. Processing methods that will yield homogeneous thin films, coatings, and fibers of these polymers, that will be suitable for optical devices such as optical modulators and switches or electroluminescing (EL) devices will also be explored. Some of these new polymers will attract considerable scientific interest in the physics and chemistry communities by providing stable processible degenerate ground state polymers supporting charged solitons or EL systems, for which nongeminate decay processes will be studied in detail. This project is being supported jointly by the Division of Materials Research, and the Division of Electrical and Communications Systems.