New infrared transmitting material via inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur to prepare high refractive index polymers

  • Jared J. Griebel
  • , Soha Namnabat
  • , Eui Tae Kim
  • , Roland Himmelhuber
  • , Dominic H. Moronta
  • , Woo Jin Chung
  • , Adam G. Simmonds
  • , Kyung Jo Kim
  • , John Van Der Laan
  • , Ngoc A. Nguyen
  • , Eustace L. Dereniak
  • , Michael E. MacKay
  • , Kookheon Char
  • , Richard S. Glass
  • , Robert A. Norwood
  • , Jeffrey Pyun

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Abstract

Polymers for IR imaging: The preparation of high refractive index polymers (n = 1.75 to 1.86) via the inverse vulcanization of elemental sulfur is reported. High quality imaging in the near (1.5 μm) and mid-IR (3-5 μm) regions using high refractive index polymeric lenses from these sulfur materials was demonstrated.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)3014-3018
Number of pages5
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume26
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - May 21 2014

Keywords

  • IR optics
  • high refractive index
  • imaging
  • polymers
  • sulfur

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering

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