Mesomorphic glass nanocomposites made of metal alkanoates and nanoparticles as emerging nonlinear-optical materials

Y. Garbovskiy; G. Klimusheva; T. Mirnaya

doi:10.1117/12.2236564

23 September 2016 Mesomorphic glass nanocomposites made of metal alkanoates and nanoparticles as emerging nonlinear-optical materials

Y. Garbovskiy, G. Klimusheva, T. Mirnaya

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Proceedings Volume 9940, Liquid Crystals XX; 99400U (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236564
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2016, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Mesomorphic metal alkanoates is very promising yet overlooked class of nonlinear-optical materials. Metal alkanoates can exhibit a broad variety of condensed states of matter including solid crystals, plastic crystals, lyotropic and thermotropic ionic liquid crystals, liquids, mesomorphic glasses, and Langmuir–Blodgett films. Glass-forming properties of metal alkanoates combined with their use as nano-reactors and anisotropic host open up simple and efficient way to design various photonic nanomaterials. Despite very interesting physics, the experimental data on optical and nonlinearoptical properties of such materials are scarce. The goal of the present paper is to fill the gap by discussing recent advances in the field of photonic materials made of metal alkanoates, organic dyes, and nanoparticles. Optical and nonlinear-optical properties of the following materials are reviewed: (i) mesomorphic glass doped with organic dyes; (ii) smectic glass composed of cobalt alkanoates; (iii) semiconductor nanoparticles embedded in a glassy host; (iv) metal nanoparticles - glass (the cobalt octanoate) nanocomposites.

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Y. Garbovskiy, G. Klimusheva, and T. Mirnaya "Mesomorphic glass nanocomposites made of metal alkanoates and nanoparticles as emerging nonlinear-optical materials", Proc. SPIE 9940, Liquid Crystals XX, 99400U (23 September 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2236564

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