| Abstract
| - Recent progress in developing highly efficient nonlinear optical dendrimers and polymers for high-performanceelectro-optic (EO) devices has been reviewed. Our efforts are focused on using nanoscale architectural controlto tailor the size, shape, conformation, and functionality of NLO chromophores and macromolecules andstudying their effects on poling efficiency. The structures of these materials vary from a 3-D-shaped dendriticchromophore, multifunctional dendrimers with the center core connected to NLO chromophores and cross-linkable functional groups at the periphery, to side-chain-dendronized NLO polymers. All the poling resultsfrom these systems have shown dramatically enhanced EO properties (a factor of 2−3) compared toconventional NLO polymers.
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