Dip-pen patterning of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) chain-conformation-based nano-photonic elements
Metamaterials are a promising new class of materials, in which sub-wavelength physical structures, rather than variations in chemical composition, can be used to modify the nature of their interaction with electromagnetic radiation. Here we show that a metamaterials approach, using a discrete physic...
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| author | Perevedentsev, A Sonnefraud, Y Belton, CR Sharma, S Cass, AEG Maier, SA Kim, J-S Stavrinou, PN Bradley, DDC |
| author_facet | Perevedentsev, A Sonnefraud, Y Belton, CR Sharma, S Cass, AEG Maier, SA Kim, J-S Stavrinou, PN Bradley, DDC |
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| description | Metamaterials are a promising new class of materials, in which sub-wavelength physical structures, rather than variations in chemical composition, can be used to modify the nature of their interaction with electromagnetic radiation. Here we show that a metamaterials approach, using a discrete physical geometry (conformation) of the segments of a polymer chain as the vector for a substantial refractive index change, can be used to enable visible wavelength, conjugated polymer photonic elements. In particular, we demonstrate that a novel form of dip-pen nanolithography provides an effective means to pattern the so-called β-phase conformation in poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) thin films. This can be done on length scales ≤500 nm, as required to fabricate a variety of such elements, two of which are theoretically modelled using complex photonic dispersion calculations. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0f6261a8-6a18-4da8-afc6-a21e6bc51e2b2022-03-26T09:51:01ZDip-pen patterning of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) chain-conformation-based nano-photonic elementsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0f6261a8-6a18-4da8-afc6-a21e6bc51e2bEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer Nature2015Perevedentsev, ASonnefraud, YBelton, CRSharma, SCass, AEGMaier, SAKim, J-SStavrinou, PNBradley, DDCMetamaterials are a promising new class of materials, in which sub-wavelength physical structures, rather than variations in chemical composition, can be used to modify the nature of their interaction with electromagnetic radiation. Here we show that a metamaterials approach, using a discrete physical geometry (conformation) of the segments of a polymer chain as the vector for a substantial refractive index change, can be used to enable visible wavelength, conjugated polymer photonic elements. In particular, we demonstrate that a novel form of dip-pen nanolithography provides an effective means to pattern the so-called β-phase conformation in poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) thin films. This can be done on length scales ≤500 nm, as required to fabricate a variety of such elements, two of which are theoretically modelled using complex photonic dispersion calculations. |
| spellingShingle | Perevedentsev, A Sonnefraud, Y Belton, CR Sharma, S Cass, AEG Maier, SA Kim, J-S Stavrinou, PN Bradley, DDC Dip-pen patterning of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) chain-conformation-based nano-photonic elements |
| title | Dip-pen patterning of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) chain-conformation-based nano-photonic elements |
| title_full | Dip-pen patterning of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) chain-conformation-based nano-photonic elements |
| title_fullStr | Dip-pen patterning of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) chain-conformation-based nano-photonic elements |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dip-pen patterning of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) chain-conformation-based nano-photonic elements |
| title_short | Dip-pen patterning of poly(9,9-dioctylfluorene) chain-conformation-based nano-photonic elements |
| title_sort | dip pen patterning of poly 9 9 dioctylfluorene chain conformation based nano photonic elements |
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