Manipulating nanoscale interactions in a polymer nanocomposite for chiral control of linear and nonlinear optical functions

Heong Sub Oh; Guang S He; Wing-Cheung Law; Alexander Baev; Hongsub Jee; Xin Liu; Augustine Urbas; Chang-Won Lee; Byoung Lyong Choi; Mark T Swihart; Paras N Prasad

doi:10.1002/adma.201304071

Manipulating nanoscale interactions in a polymer nanocomposite for chiral control of linear and nonlinear optical functions

Adv Mater. 2014 Mar 12;26(10):1607-11. doi: 10.1002/adma.201304071. Epub 2013 Dec 5.

Authors

Heong Sub Oh¹, Guang S He, Wing-Cheung Law, Alexander Baev, Hongsub Jee, Xin Liu, Augustine Urbas, Chang-Won Lee, Byoung Lyong Choi, Mark T Swihart, Paras N Prasad

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, The University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, 14260.

PMID: 24307148
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201304071

Abstract

The design, synthesis, and supramolecular organization of a nanocomposite in which nanoscale excitonic interactions between quantum dots and the chiral polymer dramatically enhance the optical activity is reported. This material is highly suitable for application in the emerging field of chiral photonics.

Keywords: chiral photonics; chiral polymer; metaphotonics; nonlinear polymer.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.