Issue |
EPL
Volume 91, Number 2, July 2010
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Article Number | 28007 | |
Number of page(s) | 4 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/91/28007 | |
Published online | 05 August 2010 |
High nonlinear optical anisotropy of urea nanofibers
1
University of Minho, Center of Physics, Campus de Gualtar - 4710-057 Braga, Portugal, EU
2
3B's Research Group – Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho - AvePark, Zona Industrial da Gandra, S. Cláudio do Barco, 4806-909 Caldas das Taipas, Guimarães, Portugal, EU
Received:
30
March
2010
Accepted:
18
July
2010
Nanofibers consisting of the optically nonlinear organic molecule urea embedded in both poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) and poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) polymers were produced by the electrospinning technique. The second-harmonic generation produced by aligned fiber mats of these materials displays a strong dependence on the polarization of the incident light. In PVA-urea nanofibers the effectiveness in generating of the second-harmonic light is as high as that of a pure urea powder with an average grain size of 110 μm. The results suggest that single crystalline urea nanofibers were achieved with a long-range crystalline order extending into the range of 2–4 μm with PVA as the host polymer.
PACS: 81.07.-b – Nanoscale materials and structures: fabrication and characterization / 68.35.bm – Polymers, organics / 42.79.Nv – Optical frequency converters
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