RUI: Metal Phosphorus Chalcogenides: Synthesis and Nonlinear Optical Properties

Gonzaga University, Spokane WA

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Abstract

0102149 Cleary This well integrated Research for Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) proposal aims to produce new metal phosphorous chalcogenides displaying nonlinear optical activity, and to integrate education objectives with the research by bringing to the curiculum topics such as solid state chemistry and nonlinear optics not normally covered in the traditional undergraduate chemistry degree program. %%% Among the materials to be synthesized and characterized are new films of nonlinear optical materials based on the chemistry of metal hexathiohypophosphates. These materials are relevant to applications areas that include optical data storage and optical communications technologies. The educational benefits include a better understanding at the undergraduate level of scientific and technological issues facing society.