RETRACTED: Advances in organic electro-optic materials and processing

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy). This article has been retracted at the request of the authors and the Editor-in-Chief. One focus of our 2004 invited (conference proceeding) article [Kimberly A. Firestone, Philip J. Reid, Rhys Lawson, Sei-Hum Jang, and Larry R. Dalton, “Advances in Organic Electro-Optic Materials and Processing,” Inorg. Chem. Acta, 357, 3957-3966 (2004)] was a preliminary report of an improved femtosecond, wavelength-agile Hyper Rayleigh Scattering technique for measurement of molecular hyperpolarizability relevant to understanding electro-optic activity. To avoid any confusion regarding credit for the broader development and study of the TCP chromophores examined by HRS in this report, we are retracting our 2004 article. The reader is referred to the following publication for a complete account of research related to the TCP chromophores: Sei-Hum Jang, Jingdong Luo, Neil M. Tucker, Amalia Leclercq, Egbert Zojer, Marnie A. Kimberly A. Firestone, Denise H. Bale, David Lao, Jason B. Benedict, Dawn Cohen, Werner Kaminsky, Bart Kahr, Jean-Luc Bredas, Philip J. Reid, Larry R. Dalton, and A. K.-Y. Jen, “Pyrroline Chromophores for Electro-Optics,” Chem. Mater., 18, 2982-2988 (2006).