Engineering organic materials for hybrid electro-optics

Abstract

A new molecular template permits nano-engineering of soft matter materials to optimize optical and optoelectronic properties.Organic materials offer exceptional electro-optic activity, bandwidth, and processability. They are also low-cost, flexible, and compatible with diverse materials. Hybrid devices (that combine organic materials with silicon technologies) offer chip-scale integration of electronics and photonics, which could support applications in telecommunications, high-performance computing, radio-frequency (RF) photonics, and sensing technologies. Such integration requires organic materials that are adaptable to a range of processing options and conditions. They also need to have optimal optical and optoelectronic properties, which depend on order and lattice dimensionality. It has proven very