Infiltration of planar two-dimensional silicon photonic crystals with nanocomposites using a simple yet effective melt processing technique is presented. The nanocomposites that were developed by evenly dispersing functionalized nanoparticles into a photoconducting polymer were completely filled into photonic crystals with hole sizes ranging from . The infiltrated devices show tuning of the photonic band gap that is controllable by the adjustment of the nanoparticle loading level. These results may be useful in the development of tunable photonic crystal based devices and hybrid light emitting diodes and solor cells.
REFERENCES
1.
J.-M.
Lourtioz
, H.
Benisty
, V.
Berger
, J.-M.
Gérard
, D.
Maystre
, and A.
Tchelnokov
, Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices
(Springer
, New York
, 2003
).2.
K.
Busch
and S.
John
, Phys. Rev. Lett.
83
, 967
(1999
).3.
S. F.
Mingaleev
, M.
Schillinger
, M.
Hermann
, and K.
Busch
, Opt. Lett.
29
, 2858
(2004
).4.
M.
Schmidt
, M.
Eich
, U.
Huebner
, and R.
Boucher
, Appl. Phys. Lett.
87
, 121110
(2005
).5.
K.
Inoue
, M.
Sasada
, J.
Kawamata
, K.
Sakoda
, and J. W.
Haus
, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 2
38
, L157
(1999
).6.
J. R.
Lawrence
, Y.
Ying
, P.
Jiang
, and S. H.
Foulger
, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.)
18
, 300
(2006
).7.
S.
Tomljenovic-Hanic
, C. M.
de Sterke
, and M. J.
Steel
, Opt. Express
14
, 12451
(2006
).8.
S.-K.
Lee
, G.-R.
Yee
, J. H.
Moon
, S.-M.
Yang
, and D. J.
Pine
, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.)
18
, 2111
(2006
).9.
S.
Furumi
, H.
Fudoizi
, H. T.
Miyazaki
, and Y.
Sakka
, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.)
19
, 2067
(2007
).10.
Y.-C.
Kim
and Y. R.
Do
, Opt. Express
13
, 1598
(2005
).11.
B.
Kannan
, K.
Castelino
, and A.
Majumdar
, Nano Lett.
3
, 1729
(2003
).12.
P.
Lodahl
, A.
Floris van Driel
, I. S.
Nikolaev
, A.
Irman
, K.
Overgaag
, D.
Vanmaekelbergh
, and W. L.
Vos
, Nature (London)
430
, 654
(2005
).13.
R.
van der Heijden
, C. F.
Carlstöm
, J. A. P.
Snijders
, R. W.
van der Heijden
, F.
Karouta
, R.
Nötzel
, H. W. M.
Salemink
, B. K. C.
Kjellander
, C. W. M.
Bastiaansen
, D. J.
Broer
, and E.
van der Drift
, Appl. Phys. Lett.
88
, 161112
(2006
).14.
M.
Deutsch
, Y. A.
Vlasov
, and D.
Norris
, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.)
12
, 1176
(2000
).15.
C.
López
, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.)
15
, 1679
(2003
).16.
17.
J.-H.
Park
, W. S.
Choi
, H. Y.
Koo
, and D.-Y.
Kim
, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.)
17
, 879
(2005
).18.
Y. J.
Jung
, S.
Kar
, S.
Talapatra
, C.
Soldano
, G.
Viswanathan
, X.
Li
, Z.
Yao
, F. S.
Ou
, A.
Avadhanula
, R.
Vajtai
, S.
Curran
, O.
Nalamasu
, and P. M.
Ajayan
, Nano Lett.
6
, 413
(2006
).19.
J.
Thomas
, C.
Fuentes-Hernandez
, M.
Yamamoto
, K.
Cammack
, K.
Matsumoto
, G. A.
Walker
, S.
Barlow
, B.
Kippelen
, G.
Meredith
, S. R.
Marder
, and N.
Peyghambarian
, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.)
16
, 2032
(2004
).20.
S.
Tay
, J.
Thomas
, M.
Eralp
, G.
Li
, R. A.
Norwood
, A.
Schulzgen
, M.
Yamamoto
, S.
Barlow
, G. A.
Walker
, S. R.
Marder
, and N.
Peyghambarian
, Appl. Phys. Lett.
87
, 171105
(2005
).21.
P.
Kim
, S. C.
Jones
, P. J.
Hotchkiss
, J. N.
Haddock
, B.
Kippelen
, S. R.
Marder
, and J. W.
Perry
, Adv. Mater. (Weinheim, Ger.)
19
, 1001
(2007
).© 2007 American Institute of Physics.
2007
American Institute of Physics
You do not currently have access to this content.
