University of California

Alexander Mikhailovsky

Guillermo C Bazan

Janice W Hong

Hadjar Benmansour

Bernhard Koehler

Craig Jon Hawker

Bin Liu

Galen D Stucky

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

Daniel Moses

Cesare Soci

Motoyuki Shigeiwa

Jeffrey Peet

Monica Katiyar

Jacek Ostrowski

Han Young Woo

Hideki Gorohmaru

Shuuichi Maeda

T Kojima

Anzar Khan

Improved processing methods for enhanced properties of conjugated polymer films are disclosed, as well as the enhanced conjugated polymer films produced thereby. Addition of low molecular weight alkyl-containing molecules to solutions used to form conjugated polymer films leads to improved photoconductivity and improvements in other electronic properties. The enhanced conjugated polymer films can be used in a variety of electronic devices, such as solar cells and photodiodes.

Enhancing performance characteristics of organic semiconducting films by improved solution processing

An optical recording material and methods of making such material is provided. The material comprises of a dewar benzene monomer, with at least two cross-linkable groups, a sensitizer, a cross-linker, and an initiator. The material does not require a binder or a co-sensitizer. The material can be fabricated by an exceedingly easy technique that offers high photosensitivity, high diffraction efficiency, millimeter thickness, and high dynamic range.

High performance, crosslinked polymeric material for holographic data storage

Chromophores having two-photon or other multi-photon absorptivity. The chromophores are based on a structure of four stilbenoid groups attached to a paracyclophane core, where each stilbenoid group comprises a nitrogen-containing organic group attached by its nitrogen atom to a stilbenoid arm. In particular embodiments, at least one of the stilbenoid groups includes a sulfonium, ammonium, selenium, iodonium or phosphonium moiety. The chromophores have utility as photo-polymerization initiators and two-photon fluorophores for biological imaging.

Paracyclophane molecules for two-photon absorption applications

Two-photon or multi-photon chromophores having a conjugated pi-electron system with donating groups at each end of the pi-electron system providing charge-transfer properties, and having quaternary amine groups that can enhance the solubility of the chromophore in water. In a particular embodiment, the chromophore is based on a distyrylbenzene core, with donor or acceptor groups attached to the central benzene ring.

Water-soluble distyrylbenzene chromophores for applications in optoelectronic technologies

Optoelectronic devices and methods for their fabrication having enhanced and controllable rates of the radiative relaxation of triplet light emitters are provided exemplified by organic light emitting devices based on phosphorescent materials with enhanced emission properties. Acceleration of the radiative processes is achieved by the interaction of the light emitting species with surface plasmon resonances in the vicinity of metal surfaces. Non-radiative F&#xf6;rster-type processes are efficiently suppressed by introducing a transparent dielectric or molecular layer between the metal surface and the chromophore. For materials with low emission oscillator strengths (such as triplet emitters), the optimal separation distance from the metal surface is determined, thus suppressing energy transfer and achieving a significant acceleration of the emission rate.

Plasmon assisted enhancement of organic optoelectronic devices

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Alexander Mikhailovsky