The morphologies and nonlinear optical properties of vanadylphthalocyanine (VOPc) thin films on polymer and KBr substrates remain unclear. This paper investigates the morphologies and nonlinear optical properties of VOPc thin films prepared on polycarbonate (PC) and KBr substrates by UV/Vis spectrum measured with UV/Vis spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and third-order harmonics (TH), as well as second-order harmonics (SH) detected using the Maker fringe method. The UV/Vis spectra of VOPc thin films prepared on a PC substrate with different evaporating source temperatures have a peak at 840 nm in the Q-band region. This indicates that the morphology of the VOPc thin films prepared is Phase II. Moreover, the UV/Vis spectra of each sample do not change with increasing thickness. Therefore, this also suggests that interaction between a VOPc molecule and the surface of a polycarbonate film is strong. The number of VOPc molecules oriented at 60° to a substrate markedly increases with the increase in evaporating source temperature. This indicates that there is an optimum evaporating source temperature for the orientation of VOPc thin films prepared on a PC substrate. In VOPc thin films prepared on a KBr substrate, the phase morphology of VOPc thin films changes from pseudoepitaxy to epitaxy by increasing the annealing time. Moreover, the incident angle dependence of second harmonic (SH) intensity shows a lower convex curve when irradiated with a p-polarized laser light, and the SH intensity is enhanced with the increase of the annealing time. Moreover, the incident angle dependence of third harmonic (TH) intensity shows upper convex curves and the maximum values of TH intensity are enhanced with the increase of the annealing time. These findings indicate that the orientation of VOPc thin films is improved with the increase in annealing time. It is closely related to molecular diffusion during annealing.
In this paper, the VOPc film was prepared on KBr substrate by OMBD. After that, it was treated in organic gas. The thickness of VOPc film was 96 nm. The morphologies of VOPc film before and after the gas treatment were characterized with optical absorption spectra and SEM image. The third- harmonic generation of VOPc film before and after the gas treatment were also measured by Maker fringe method using a Nd:YAG laser.
PMMA and PET thin films doped with (t-Bu)4VOPc {(t- Bu)4VOPc PMMA and (t-Bu)4VOPc PET} and PMMA thin film doped with (t-bu)1. 4VOPc {(t-Bu)1. 4 VOPc PMMA} were prepared on glass substrate by coating (t-Bu)4VOPc PMMA and (t-Bu)4VOPcPET were treated with dichloroethane vapor in a desiccator at room temperature. On the other hand, (t-Bu)1. 4VOPc PMMA was treated with dichloroethane and chloroform vapor in the desiccator at room temperature. The (t-Bu)1. 4VOPc PMMA and (t-Bu)4VOPc PMMA thin films showed SHG and THG after vapor treatment but (t-Bu)4VOPc PET thin film did not. These suggest that the degree of swelling by dichloroethane vapor are different between PMMA and PET. In other words, the aggregation of (t-Bu4) VOPc occurs more easily in PMMA than in PET. The THG of (t-Bu)1. 4VOPc PMMA thin film is larger than that of a (t-Bu)4VOPc PMMA thin film. This means that the molecular size of (t-Bu)1. 4VOPc is smaller than that of the size of (t-Bu)4VOPc.
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