SBIR/STTR Research Award
VAPOR DEPOSITION OF ORGANIC NONLINEAR OPTICS MATERIALS
Award amount
$50,000Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1988Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Micro Optics Technologies, Inc
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THIN FILMS OF ORGANIC NONLINEAR OPTICAL MATERIALS ARE DEPOSITED BY VAPOR DEPOSITION FROM SUBLIMATION SOURCES IN VACUUM. CHEMICAL BONDING AND POLYMERIZATION OF THESE MATERIALS IS STUDIED DURING DEPOSITION TO TRY TO IMPROVE THEPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THESE MATERIALS RELATIVE TO THOSE OF THE MOLECULAR CRYSTALS. EXCITATION OF THE GROWING FILM BY CHEMICAL ADSORPTION AND ION OR PHOTON EXCITATION IS USED. THE NONLINEAR ORGANIC MATERIALS THAT ARE STUDIED ARE UREA, POM AND MAP. AMINO ACIDS ARE ADDITIONALLY STUDIED.
Technology keywords
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