Integrated flexible chalcogenide glass photonic devices

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 643-649

  Li, Lan ^a   Lin, Hongtao ^a   Qiao, Shutao ^b   Zou, Yi ^a   Danto, Sylvain ^c   Richardson, Kathleen ^c,d   Musgraves, J David ^d   Lu, Nanshu ^b   Hu, Juejun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c University of Central Florida   (United States)

^d IRradiance Glass Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHALCOGENIDES; FABRICATION; GLASS; WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

EMERGING APPLICATIONS; FABRICATION TECHNIQUE; FLEXIBLE INTERCONNECTS; FLEXIBLE PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; INTEGRATION CAPACITY; MECHANICAL FLEXIBILITY; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PHOTONIC INTEGRATIONS;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84905233068     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.138     Document Type: Article

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