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  • Title: Surface enhanced second harmonic generation from macrocycle, catenane, and rotaxane thin films: experiments and theory.
    Author: Arfaoui I, Bermúdez V, Bottari G, De Nadai C, Jalkanen JP, Kajzar F, Leigh DA, Lubomska M, Mendoza SM, Niziol J, Rudolf P, Zerbetto F.
    Journal: J Phys Chem B; 2006 Apr 20; 110(15):7648-52. PubMed ID: 16610855.
    Abstract:
    Surface enhanced second harmonic generation (SE SHG) experiments on molecular structures, macrocycles, catenanes, and rotaxanes, deposited as monolayers and multilayers by vacuum sublimation on silver, are reported. The measurements show that the molecules form ordered thin films, where the highest degree of order is observed in the case of macrocycle monolayers and the lowest in the case of rotaxane multilayers. The second harmonic generation activity is interpreted in terms of electric field induced second harmonic (EFISH) generation where the electric field is created by the substrate silver atoms. The measured second order nonlinear optical susceptibility for a rotaxane thin film is compared with that obtained by considering only EFISH contribution to SHG intensity. The electric field on the surface of a silver layer is calculated by using the Delphi4 program for structures obtained with TINKER molecular mechanics/dynamics simulations. An excellent agreement is observed between the calculated and the measured SHG susceptibilities.
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