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Growth of thin films of dicyanovinylanisole on quartz and teflon-coated quartz by physical vapor transport
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Pearson, Earl F. |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Description | Organic compounds offer the possibility of molecular engineering in order to optimize the nonlinearity and minimize damage due to the high-power lasers used in nonlinear optical devices. Recently dicyanovinylanisole (DIVA), ((2-methoxyphenyl) methylenepropanedinitrile) has been shown to have a second order nonlinearity 40 times that of alpha-quartz. Debe et. al. have shown that a high degree of orientational order exists for thin films of phthalocyanine grown by physical vapor transport in microgravity. The microgravity environment eliminates convective flow and was critical to the formation of highly ordered dense continuous films in these samples. This work seeks to discover the parameters necessary for the production of thin continuous films of high optical quality in Earth gravity. These parameters must be known before the experiment can be planned for growing DIVA in a microgravity environment. The microgravity grown films are expected to be denser and of better optical quality than the unit gravity films as was observed in the phthalocyanine films. |
| File Size | 388735 |
| Page Count | 8 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19950012585 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t13n7303w |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1994-10-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Nonmetallic Materials Thin Films Cyano Compounds Vapor Deposition Methoxy Systems Space Processing Optical Materials Phthalocyanin Quartz Nonlinear Optics Organic Compounds Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |