High-performance photorefractive polymer composites doped with 2-piperidino-5-thienylmalononitrile chromophore

Chil-Sung Choi; Quoc Vuong Nguyen; Nakjoong Kim

Macromolecular Research, Vol.18, No.3, 279-283, March, 2010

DOI10.1007/s13233-010-0312-8 Export Citation

High-performance photorefractive polymer composites doped with 2-piperidino-5-thienylmalononitrile chromophore

Chil-Sung Choi^†, Quoc Vuong Nguyen, and Nakjoong Kim^{1, †}

Department of Chemistry, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791, Korea
¹Research Institute for Natural Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791, Korea

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We report photorefractive (PR) polymer composites doped with 2-piperidino-5-thienylmalononitrile chromophore. The PR polymer composites showed a glass transition temperature of 25 similar to 27 A degrees C, good transparency at 633 nm and long shelf lifetimes at room temperature. The PR polymer composites with a thickness of 100 mu m showed a maximum diffraction efficiency of 77 similar to 91% and a rapid response time of 110 similar to 980 ms at the glass transition temperature. In addition, the composite C3 was observed at a video-rate response time at 35 A degrees C.

Keywords:photorefractive;2-piperidino-5-thienylmalononitrile;photoconductivity;diffraction efficiency;PR response time

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[5] Chun H, Moon IK, Shin DH, Kim N, Chem. Mater., 13, 2813 (2001)

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[10] Moon IK, Choi CS, Kim N, J. Polym. Sci. A: Polym. Chem., 46(5), 1783 (2008)

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