Non-linear dielectric materials and capacitor

A composite organic compound characterized by polarizability and resistivity that has

• a general structural formula:
• where C is a chromophore fragment comprises an aromatic substituent independently selected from the group consisting of six-membered aromatic rings, five-membered heteroaromatic rings, fused ring systems containing at least one six-membered aromatic ring, and fused ring systems containing at least one five-membered heteroaromatic ring having one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of O, N, S and Se,
• wherein C has the general structure:
• wherein each Q comprises an aromatic substituent independently selected from the group consisting of six-membered aromatic rings, five-membered heteroaromatic rings, fused ring systems of at least one six-membered aromatic ring, and fused ring systems of at least one five-membered heteroaromatic ring having one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of O, N, S and Se,
• B comprises a conjugated functional group, the value of i for each B is an integer between zero and three, inclusively, and j is from one to nine, inclusive;
• and
• R, D, A, and B may independently be attached to a member of a heteroaromatic ring alpha to a heteroatom, and when Q is an aromatic ring, B is attached to a member of said aromatic ring para to R or another B, and
• where D and A can independently be ortho, meta, or para to B on Q.
• D comprises an electron donating group capable of releasing electrons into said conjugated aromatic system;
• l is an integer between zero and three, inclusively,
• A comprises an electron accepting group capable of pulling electrons from said conjugated aromatic system;
• m is an integer between zero and three, inclusively,
• R is selected from the group consisting of straight-chained or branched alkyl, alkoxy, alkylthio, alkylamino, and fluoro-alkyl group containing from one to thirty carbon atoms attached to said composite organic compound wherein R may independently be attached to C and P by an alkyl moiety or connecting group, k is the number of R groups attached to the composite organic compound wherein R may independently be attached to C and P by an alkyl moiety or a connecting group, the value of k is an integer between 0 and 15, inclusively,
• S comprises a heteroaromatic substituent selected from the group consisting of five-membered heteroaromatic rings having one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of O, N, S and Se, fused ring systems containing at least one five-membered heteroaromatic ring having one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of O, S and Se, fused ring systems containing at least one five-membered heteroaromatic ring having two to four N heteroatoms, fused ring systems containing all five-membered heteroaromatic rings having one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of O, N, S and Se, pyrimidine and purine, so that S is tricyanovinylated at a ring position alpha to a heteroatom;
• where P is a polycyclic conjugated molecular fragments having two-dimensional flat form and self-assembling by pi-pi stacking in a column-like supramolecule, n is the number of the polycyclic conjugated molecular fragments which is equal to 0, 2, or 4.