Liganded silver and gold quantum clusters. Towards a new class of nonlinear optical nanomaterials

1. Introduction
Rodolphe Antoine, Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký

2. Liganded Silver and Gold Quantum Clusters: Background of Their Structural, Electronic, and Optical Properties
Rodolphe Antoine, Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký

3. A Brief Survey of Nonlinear Optics: Second Harmonic Generation and Two-Photon Absorption
Rodolphe Antoine, Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký

4. Computational Evaluation of Optical Nonlinearities: Quantum Chemical Approaches
Rodolphe Antoine, Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký

5. Design Strategy and Structure-Property Relation for Enhanced Two-Photon Absorption in Ligated Metal Nanoclusters
Rodolphe Antoine, Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký

6. Measurement Techniques of Optical Nonlinearities—Two-Photon Absorption/Fluorescence and Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering
Rodolphe Antoine, Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký

7. Selected Studied Cases
Rodolphe Antoine, Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký

8. Concluding Remarks and Outlook
Rodolphe Antoine, Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký

Keywords: Materials Science, Optical and Electronic Materials, Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Nanotechnology and Microengineering