Fast self-assembly of macroscopic blue phase 3D photonic crystals

Otón Martínez, Eva, Morawiak, Przemyslaw, Galadyk, Katarzyna, Otón Sánchez, José Manuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8070-9180 and Piecek, Wiktor (2020). Fast self-assembly of macroscopic blue phase 3D photonic crystals. "Optics Express", v. 28 (n. 12); pp. 18202-18211. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.393197.

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Title: Fast self-assembly of macroscopic blue phase 3D photonic crystals
Author/s:
  • Otón Martínez, Eva
  • Morawiak, Przemyslaw
  • Galadyk, Katarzyna
  • Otón Sánchez, José Manuel https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8070-9180
  • Piecek, Wiktor
Item Type: Article
Título de Revista/Publicación: Optics Express
Date: 8 June 2020
Volume: 28
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Faculty: E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación (UPM)
Department: Tecnología Fotónica y Bioingeniería
Creative Commons Licenses: None

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Abstract

Blue phase (BP) liquid crystals are materials with unique self-assembling properties.
They can be regarded as 3D photonic crystals as they organize in 3D cubic structures with sub-micrometer range periodicity and display selective optical bandgaps. Yet, the obtained BP crystals are usually polycrystalline or micrometer-sized monocrystals. Producing large BP monocrystals has proven to be a challenging and time-consuming endeavor, due to BP crystal growth being notoriously slow and the complex requirements for achieving a reasonable size and monocrystalline structure.
In this work we successfully obtained large BP monocrystals (single lattice orientation) by fast self-assembly. Our fabrication process, which is about 100x faster than in previous reported research, uses relatively simple techniques, therefore demonstrating a considerable improvement towards the manufacturing of 3D photonic crystals.

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Item ID: 62924
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/62924/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:62924
DOI: 10.1364/OE.393197
Deposited by: Dr Eva Oton
Deposited on: 08 Jul 2020 07:20
Last Modified: 02 Apr 2023 12:47
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