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Organic crystals possessing both mechanical flexibility (elastic/plastic) and light-
transducing property have gained significant attention due to their potential applications in
multidisciplinary fields of materials science and applications like photonic devices, optoelectronic
devices, soft robotics, and smart materials, optical-sensor, field-effect transistors, and lasers.
Indeed, bulk organic single crystals are mechanically weak and susceptible to breaking under
external stress. Owing to this, the
applications of organic crystals are
limited in the field of flexible devices.
Organic crystal’s optical waveguides can
propagate the signals in a tightly confined
field in a particular direction with high
speed and low power. In this context, this
proposal aims to develop methodologies
for efficiently utilizing mechanically
flexible organic crystals with photonic
properties for the next generation of
optical/optoelectronic devices. |