Incorporating photochromic molecules into organic or hybrid organic-inorganic materials
leads to photoresponsive systems, the properties of which can be manipulated by light …

This paper deals with recent and important developments in the field of organic materials for
second-order nonlinear optics. Attention is drawn to current trends in chromophore design …

This work demonstrates that the recognition of cations by molecular switches can give rise to
large contrasts of the second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) properties, which can therefore …

Reversible switching of quadratic NLO responses can be achieved in organic and metallo‐
organic molecular compounds by application of various external stimuli. Strategies for the …

The first bulk electron‐transfer photochromic compound with intrinsic second‐order
nonlinear optical (NLO) photoswitching properties has been synthesized. This system …

Over the past decade, a large number of molecular compounds from the broad field of
nonlinear optical (NLO) materials has been studied extensively in order to discover …

Two new anil molecules exhibiting photochromism in the crystalline state, N-(4-hydroxy)-
salicylidene-amino-4-(methylbenzoate)(2) and N-(3, 5-di-tert-butylsalicylidene)-4 …

Low‐energy metal‐to‐ligand charge‐transfer (MLCT) excitations are associated with the
very large molecular nonlinear optical (NLO) coefficients, β, of the complexes [RuII (NH3) 5 …

A combined experimental–theoretical investigation has revealed that oxazine-based
compounds are multiaddressable, multistate, and multifunctional molecular switches …

Nonlinear optical (NLO) switchable materials are important for photonic and optoelectronic
technologies. One important issue for NLO photoswitching, the most studied physical …