SBIR Phase I:A Low Cost Scalable Approach to Improved Electro-optic Materials Performance using a New Functionalized Polymer Host with a Wide Range of Commercially Available Chromo

SBIR 第一阶段：使用具有多种市售铬的新型功能化聚合物主体来提高电光材料性能的低成本可扩展方法

• 批准号: 0637591
• 负责人: Earl Wagener
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 依托单位: TETRAMER TECHNOLOGIES, L.L.C.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2007-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0637591&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Low; Cost; Scalable

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project describes a new approach to solving the problem of creating higher performing Electro-Optic (EO) polymer materials which have significantly lower cost than the current very expensive multi-step synthesis. The proposed technology also offers the ability to obtain much higher optimal loading, which will improve performance. The greater chromophore effectiveness and higher loading levels potentially eliminate the need for expensive high performance chromophores and for the first time can allow the use of simple chromophores to obtain high EO coefficients. The specific technical objectives in the proposed work include: (1) down-select 10 most promising chromophores best suited to the new functionalized polymer technology (2) measure and optimize the red shift of the bandgap of these chromophore/polymer composites; and (3) pole and characterize the optimized EO materials using the r33 value obtained, switching speed, insertion loss, thermal stability, and relaxation rate of the chromophores to improve the commercial application value.Significant societal and commercial impact will emerge from improved electro-optic devices having greatly expanded bandwidth for telecommunications. For example, higher data transfer will benefit applications such as telemedicine, virtual classrooms, higher-level security systems, and real time personal and commercial data access. The proposed activities will enhance global scientific knowledge in electro-optic polymers through investigation of the unprecedented red shift. Further investigation of this unusual effect should lead to new device inventions.

小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目描述了一种新的方法来解决创建更高性能的电光（EO）聚合物材料的问题，其成本显着低于目前非常昂贵的多步合成。 所提出的技术还提供了获得更高的最佳负载的能力，这将提高性能。 更高的发色团效率和更高的负载水平潜在地消除了对昂贵的高性能发色团的需要，并且首次可以允许使用简单的发色团来获得高EO系数。 具体技术目标包括：（1）筛选出10种最适合新型功能化聚合物技术的生色团;（2）测量并优化这些生色团/聚合物复合材料的带隙红移;以及（3）使用所获得的r33值、开关速度、插入损耗、热稳定性和弛豫速率，以提高其商业应用价值。改进的电光器件将极大地扩展电信带宽，从而产生重大的社会和商业影响。 例如，更高的数据传输将有利于远程医疗、虚拟教室、更高级别的安全系统以及真实的个人和商业数据访问等应用。 拟议的活动将通过对前所未有的红移的调查，提高全球对电光聚合物的科学认识。 对这种不寻常效应的进一步研究应该会带来新的设备发明。