Organic-inorganic hybrid solid-state devices

The rate of energy and electron transfer in any of these systems is an ensemble average of all sites within the layered assembly, and thus there is no single rate for any of the processes in the assemblies. Nonetheless, in addition to the increased quantum yield, assemblies constructed with the HTiNbOs spacer exhibit a long-lived charge-separated state component not observed in the a-ZrP spaced assemblies, of x = 900 ps. While there is still much to be learned from the study of multi-chromophore arrays, this synthetic approach appears to hold much promise for the creation of organic-inorganic hybrid solid state devices. 

By the sol-gel-process, inorganic glassy and hybrid polymeric materials are accessible at comparatively low temperatures [1], Therefore, organic molecules or dyes can easily be incorporated into the oxide matrix. This combination is especially attractive for the development of the following devices optical filters, solid-state lasers, optical switches, nonlinear optical laser hosts, optical data storage media, and photoconductive devices and films [2]. 

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