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Synthetic Metals

Volume 26, Issue 4, 30 November 1988, Pages 369-381
Synthetic Metals

Conductive and optically non-linear polymeric langmuir-blodgett films of poly(3-dodecylthiophene)

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Abstract

Monolayer film formation at the air/water interface was investigated for both electrochemically and chemically prepared poly(3-dodecylthiophene) using surface pressure-molecular area isotherms. Only the electrochemically prepared polymer formed a stable monolayer, which was successfully transferred using the horizontal lifting method. The transferred Langmuir-Blodgett films were characterized by u.v.-visible spectroscopy, quartz crystal microbalance measurements, electrical conductivity measurements and femtosecond degenerate four-wave mixing studies of the third-order optical non-linearity. The third-order optical susceptibility of undoped poly(3-dodecylthiophene) was found to be χ(3) ∼ 10−9, esu, large enough to allow the first reported observation of a degenerate four-wave mixing signal from ultrathin Langmuir-Blodgett films. In situ iodine-doping studies of u.v.-visible absorption, electrical conductivity and third-order non-linear optical susceptibility were carried out. Upon doping, the conductivity increased by more than eight orders of magnitude and the χ(3) value decreased to within ten percent of the original value.

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