Fiber draw synthesis
The synthesis of a high-melting temperature semiconductor in a low-temperature fiber drawing process is demonstrated, substantially expanding the set of materials that can be incorporated into fibers. Reagents in the solid state are arranged in proximate domains within a fiber preform. The preform i...
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2011
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| author | Orf, Nicholas D. Shapira, Ofer Sorin, Fabien Danto, Sylvain Fink, Yoel Baldo, Marc A Joannopoulos, John |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Orf, Nicholas D. Shapira, Ofer Sorin, Fabien Danto, Sylvain Fink, Yoel Baldo, Marc A Joannopoulos, John |
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| description | The synthesis of a high-melting temperature semiconductor in a low-temperature fiber drawing process is demonstrated, substantially expanding the set of materials that can be incorporated into fibers. Reagents in the solid state are arranged in proximate domains within a fiber preform. The preform is fluidized at elevated temperatures and drawn into fiber, reducing the lateral dimensions and bringing the domains into intimate contact to enable chemical reaction. A polymer preform containing a thin layer of selenium contacted by tin–zinc wires is drawn to yield electrically contacted crystalline ZnSe domains of sub-100-nm scales. The in situ synthesized compound semiconductor becomes the basis for an electronic heterostructure diode of arbitrary length in the fiber. The ability to synthesize materials within fibers while precisely controlling their geometry and electrical connectivity at submicron scales presents new opportunities for increasing the complexity and functionality of fiber structures. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/662682022-09-26T13:58:06Z Fiber draw synthesis Orf, Nicholas D. Shapira, Ofer Sorin, Fabien Danto, Sylvain Fink, Yoel Baldo, Marc A Joannopoulos, John Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Fink, Yoel Orf, Nicholas D. Shapira, Ofer Sorin, Fabien Danto, Sylvain Baldo, Marc A. Joannopoulos, John D. Fink, Yoel The synthesis of a high-melting temperature semiconductor in a low-temperature fiber drawing process is demonstrated, substantially expanding the set of materials that can be incorporated into fibers. Reagents in the solid state are arranged in proximate domains within a fiber preform. The preform is fluidized at elevated temperatures and drawn into fiber, reducing the lateral dimensions and bringing the domains into intimate contact to enable chemical reaction. A polymer preform containing a thin layer of selenium contacted by tin–zinc wires is drawn to yield electrically contacted crystalline ZnSe domains of sub-100-nm scales. The in situ synthesized compound semiconductor becomes the basis for an electronic heterostructure diode of arbitrary length in the fiber. The ability to synthesize materials within fibers while precisely controlling their geometry and electrical connectivity at submicron scales presents new opportunities for increasing the complexity and functionality of fiber structures. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship United States. Army Research Office (Contract W911NF-07-D-0004) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Materials Research Science and Engineering Center Program (Award DMR—0819762)) 2011-10-17T14:46:56Z 2011-10-17T14:46:56Z 2011-03 2010-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1091-6490 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66268 Orf, N. D. et al. “Fiber draw synthesis.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (2011): 4743-4747. ©2011 by the National Academy of Sciences https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9752-2283 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7244-3682 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2201-5257 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1101160108 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) PNAS |
| spellingShingle | Orf, Nicholas D. Shapira, Ofer Sorin, Fabien Danto, Sylvain Fink, Yoel Baldo, Marc A Joannopoulos, John Fiber draw synthesis |
| title | Fiber draw synthesis |
| title_full | Fiber draw synthesis |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Fiber draw synthesis |
| title_short | Fiber draw synthesis |
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