Abstract
Chemical imidization at room temperature is employed as a novel curing process for dc electric field poled electro-optic (EO) polyimide guest-host systems. Dehydration occurring through imidization of the polyamic acid is completed chemically after poling rather than thermally during poling. After thermal aging at 155 °C (above the poling temperature) chemically imidized samples retain over 30% of their original poling induced EO signal while similarly poled samples, which have not been chemically imidized, produce a null EO response.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2213-2215 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 18 |
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| State | Published - 1991 |