Bottom-up tailoring of photonic nanofibers

Frank Balzer; Morten Madsen; Ralf Frese; Manuela Schiek; Tomas Tamulevicius; Sigitas Tamulevicius; Horst-Günter Rubahn

doi:10.1117/12.761762

6 February 2008 Bottom-up tailoring of photonic nanofibers

Frank Balzer, Morten Madsen, Ralf Frese, Manuela Schiek, Tomas Tamulevicius, Sigitas Tamulevicius, Horst-Günter Rubahn

Proceedings Volume 6883, Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics; 68830T (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.761762
Event: MOEMS-MEMS 2008 Micro and Nanofabrication, 2008, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Aligned ensembles of nanoscopic nanofibers from organic molecules such as para-phenylenes for photonic applications can be fabricated by self-assembled molecular growth on a suited dielectric substrate. Epitaxy together with alignment due to electric surface fields determines the growth directions. In this paper we demonstrate how aligned growth along arbitrary directions can be realized by depositing the molecules on a micro-structured and gold covered Silicon surface, consisting of channels and ridges. For the correct combination of ridge width and deposition temperature fibers grow perpendicular to the ridge edge, emitting light polarized along the ridges after UV excitation.

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Frank Balzer, Morten Madsen, Ralf Frese, Manuela Schiek, Tomas Tamulevicius, Sigitas Tamulevicius, and Horst-Günter Rubahn "Bottom-up tailoring of photonic nanofibers", Proc. SPIE 6883, Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics, 68830T (6 February 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.761762

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