Semitransparent Layers of Social Self?Sorting Merocyanine Dyes for Ultranarrow Bandwidth Organic Photodiodes

Merocyanine dyes with improved photostability.

Merocyanine dyes have proven valuable for live cell fluorescence imaging applications, but many structures have been limited by rapid photobleaching. We show that photostability is substantially enhanced for merocyanines having a cyano group at a specific position in the central polymethine chain. Evidence is presented that this is due to reduction in reactivity of the dyes with singlet oxygen....

Substituent effects in stilbene-based merocyanine dyes

Students in organic chemistry are taught a number of fundamental principles concerning the factors which govern the properties of organic compounds. Among these principles is the effect of substituents on the properties of aromatic rings, especially the benzene ring. For instance, we teach the students that the reactivity of the benzene molecule towards electrophilic substitution reactions is e...

Nanostructured organic photodiodes

Gain-Bandwidth Characteristics of Thin Avalanche Photodiodes

The frequency-response characteristics of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with thin multiplication layers are investigated by means of a recurrence technique that incorporates the history dependence of ionization coefficients. In addition, to characterize the autocorrelation function of the impulse response, new recurrence equations are derived and solved using a parallel computer. The mean freque...

Electronic states in heterostructures formed by ultranarrow layers.

Low-energy electronic states in heterostructures formed by ultranarrow layers (single or several monolayers in thickness) are studied theoretically. The host material is described within the effective mass approximation and the effect of ultranarrow layers is taken into account within the framework of the transfer matrix approach. Using the current conservation requirement and the inversion sym...