Yongming Cai

Two-Step Synthesis of Side-Chain Aromatic Polyimides for Second-Order Nonlinear Optics

Tian-An Chen, Alex K.‐Y. Jen, Yongming Cai · Macromolecules · 1996 · 140 citations

Optical Materials, Engineering, Responsive Polymers +19

Facile Approach to Nonlinear Optical Side-Chain Aromatic Polyimides with Large Second-Order Nonlinearity and Thermal Stability

Tian-An Chen, Alex K.‐Y. Jen, Yongming Cai · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1995 · 138 citations

Optical Materials, Engineering, Facile Approach +20

Synthesis and characterization of highly efficient and thermally stable diphenylamino‐substituted thiophene stilbene chromophores for nonlinear optical applications

Alex K.‐Y. Jen, Yongming Cai, Peter V. Bedworth et al. · Advanced Materials · 1997 · 124 citations

Nonlinear Chromophores, Optical Materials, Engineering +24

Synthesis and Relative Thermal Stabilities of Diphenylamino- vs Piperidinyl-Substituted Bithiophene Chromophores for Nonlinear Optical Materials

Peter V. Bedworth, Yongming Cai, Alex K.‐Y. Jen et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry · 1996 · 105 citations

Synthesis of Diarylthiobarbituric acid Chromophores with Enhanced Second-order Optical Nonlinearities and Thermal Stability

Sandra Gilmour, Robert A. Montgomery, Seth R. Marder et al. · Chemistry of Materials · 1994 · 75 citations