Summary form only given. Here we show how to use self-organization to make three-dimensional semiconductor photonic crystals operating at optical wavelengths. Our approach combines colloidal chemistry with two-steps of hierarchical self-assembly. First monodisperse submicron silica spheres slowly settle onto a flat substrate and self-organize as a (mostly) face-centered cubic (fcc) lattice that is periodic on an optical length scale. Second, this template serves as a three-dimensional scaffolding for the self-assembly of nanometer-scale CdSe colloidal quantum dots. Subsequently, the silica template is removed by selective etching and a three-dimensionally patterned material consisting solely of densely-packed semiconductor quantum dots is obtained. Therefore, the exact three-dimensional structure of the template is imprinted in the final material.


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    Title :

    Semiconductor quantum-dot photonic crystals


    Contributors:
    Vlasov, Yu.A. (author) / Yao, N. (author) / Norris, D.J. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    292896 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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