We have produced aluminum wire grids with 33 nm periodicity using a thin film of a self-assembling cylinder
forming diblock copolymer as a template. These grids, supported on fused quartz wafers, function as transmission
polarizers for visible and near-ultraviolet lights and are a thin design, compared to commercially available polarization
prisms. Their polarization efficiency is measured to be near 50% in the visible. Quantitative comparison with a new
theoretical analysis of such wire grids indicates that they should perform well into the far UV. This analysis also
explains a reversal in polarization direction at short wavelengths which we observe in our specimens. This is an
expanded version of a previous paper.1
Results have been presented on isolating rare earth atoms in small numbers in semiconductor
nanoparticles so as to use their organized arrays as hardware for quantum computing. We have
tailored atomic states of rare earths, fabricated nanoparticles where these atomic systems are
incorporated in small numbers and have patterned arrays of nano-holes on semi-conducting and
polymer surfaces to encapsulate these rare earth doped nanoparticles. Results are presented on
fabrication, microscopy and spectroscopy of these structures.
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