Infiltration of individual pores in macroporous silicon photonic crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7393, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nolte, Peter W ^a   Pergande, Daniel ^a   Schweizer, Stefan L ^a   Geuss, Markus ^b   Salzer, Roland ^c   Makowski, Brian ^d   Steinhart, Martin ^b   Wehrspohn, Ralf B ^a,c   Weder, Christoph ^d  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MICROSTRUCTURE PHYSICS   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^d Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyes; Local infiltration; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

DYES; ION BEAMS; NANOPHOTONICS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLYMERS; POROUS SILICON; SILICON PHOTONICS;

2-D PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; FOCUSED ION BEAM TECHNOLOGY; FUNCTIONALIZATIONS; MACRO POROUS SILICON; TEMPLATING;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 70350398982     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.824862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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