Self-Assembled hierarchical nanostructures for high-efficiency porous photonic crystals

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12167-12174

  Passoni, Luca ^a,b   Criante, Luigino ^a   Fumagalli, Francesco ^a   Scotognella, Francesco ^a,b   Lanzani, Guglielmo ^a,b   Di Fonzo, Fabio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

1D nanostructures; Bragg diffractors; hierarchical nanostructures; nanostructure fabrication; porous photonic crystals; pulsed laser deposition

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; MORPHOLOGY; NANOSTRUCTURES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POROUS SILICON; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SUBSTRATES; THICK FILMS;

1-D NANOSTRUCTURES; BRAGG DIFFRACTORS; HIERARCHICAL NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOSTRUCTURE FABRICATION; POROUS PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

MODULATION;

EID: 84919712400     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5037202     Document Type: Article

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