Fabrication and applications of lithium niobate micro/nano structures
Mailis, Sakellaris, Paturzo, Melania, Eason, Robert W., Lagoudakis, Pavlos G. and Feldman, Jochen (2004) Fabrication and applications of lithium niobate micro/nano structures. In, 8th International Symposium on Ferroic Domains and Micro- to Nanoscopic Structures (ISFD-8), Tsukuba, Japan, 24 - 27 Aug 2004. 1pp.
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Nonlinear optical frequency conversion is reported from single crystal lithium niobate nanostructures. Structuring on the nanometer scale is achieved by a combination of ferroelectric domain inversion and chemical etching. A 2D hexagonal lattice of inverted ferroelectric domains is formed after selective application of an external electric field at room temperature. Long (15 hr) etching in hot (60°) HF acid results in differential etching of opposite ferroelectric domain faces while side etching sharpens the end point of the superstructures. The end structure terminates in pyramidal shaped tips of sub-wavelength dimensions and ultra sharp edges. A scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of a tip array is shown in the attached figure. A High resolution side view of the sharp tip is shown in the inset picture. We have observed highly efficient nonlinear optical second harmonic generation (SHG) from single tips. The efficiency of SHG is two orders of magnitude higher as compared to that of the unstructured crystal.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | Invited paper |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > Optoelectronics Research Centre |
| Item ID: | 41707 |
| Date Deposited: | 10 May 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:08 |
| Contributors: | Mailis, Sakellaris (Author) Paturzo, Melania (Author) Eason, Robert W. (Author) Lagoudakis, Pavlos G. (Author) Feldman, Jochen (Author) |
| Date: | 2004 |
| Additional Information: | Invited paper |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/41707 |
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