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Nanostructured Assembly of Homopolymers for a Flexible Bragg Grating
Author(s) -
Kim M.,
Nagarajan R.,
Snook J. H.,
Samuelson L. A.,
Kumar J.
Publication year - 2005
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/adma.200400693
Subject(s) - materials science , polystyrene , fabrication , dielectric , nanometre , grating , fiber bragg grating , methacrylate , nanotechnology , polymer , optoelectronics , composite material , copolymer , wavelength , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Fabrication of homogeneous, flexible, polymeric, dielectric Bragg gratings is demonstrated. The Bragg grating is assembled on a poly(ethylene terephthalate) film using polymeric colloidal microspheres of polystyrene (PS) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) (see Figure). The microspheres are stacked successively with precise control at the nanometer scale and the gratings, free of metal and other inorganic materials, cover a relatively large area.