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Aluminum Oxide Photonic Crystals Grown by a New Hybrid Method
Author(s) -
Mikulskas I.,
Juodkazis S.,
Tomas̆iūnas R.,
Dumas J. G.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/1521-4095(200110)13:20<1574::aid-adma1574>3.0.co;2-9
Subject(s) - materials science , anodizing , photonic crystal , fabrication , optoelectronics , substrate (aquarium) , photonics , oxide , band gap , aluminium , anodic aluminum oxide , grating , yield (engineering) , nanotechnology , aluminum oxide , optics , metallurgy , medicine , oceanography , alternative medicine , physics , pathology , geology
A simple method for the fabrication of anodic aluminum oxide films (AOFs) with perfectly ordered structures (see Figure) is presented by these authors. A common optical grating is used to prepattern the aluminum substrate, which is subsequently anodized under mild conditions to yield an AOF with a photonic bandgap in the visible region.