Epitaxial growth of aligned semiconductor nanowire metamaterials for photonic applications
Epitaxial growth of aligned semiconductor nanowire metamaterials for photonic applications
A novel class of optical metamaterials is presented consisting of high densities of aligned gallium phosphide (GaP) nanowires fabricated using metal-organic vapor phase-epitaxy. Starting from a gold island film as a catalyst for nanowire growth, a sequential combination of vapor-liquid-solid and lateral growth modes is employed to obtain a continuous tunability of the nanowire volume fraction from 7% to over 35%. By choosing different crystallographic orientations of the GaP substrate, metamaterials are designed with different nanowire orientations. The anisotropy of the nanowire building blocks results in strong optical birefringence. Polarization interferometry demonstrates a very large polarization extinction contrast of 4 × 103 combined with a sharp angular resonance which holds promise for optical sensing. Nanowire metamaterials may find applications in photonics, optoelectronics, non-linear and quantum optics, microfluidics, bio-, and gas sensing.
semiconductor nanowires, metamaterials, gallium phosphide, photonics, alignment
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Muskens, Otto L.
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Diedenhofen, Silke L.
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van Weert, Maarten H.M.
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Borgström, Magnus T.
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11 April 2008
Muskens, Otto L.
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Diedenhofen, Silke L.
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van Weert, Maarten H.M.
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Borgström, Magnus T.
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Muskens, Otto L., Diedenhofen, Silke L., van Weert, Maarten H.M., Borgström, Magnus T., Bakkers, Erik P.A.M. and Rivas, Jaime Gómez
(2008)
Epitaxial growth of aligned semiconductor nanowire metamaterials for photonic applications.
Advanced Functional Materials, 18 (7), .
(doi:10.1002/adfm.200701337).
Abstract
A novel class of optical metamaterials is presented consisting of high densities of aligned gallium phosphide (GaP) nanowires fabricated using metal-organic vapor phase-epitaxy. Starting from a gold island film as a catalyst for nanowire growth, a sequential combination of vapor-liquid-solid and lateral growth modes is employed to obtain a continuous tunability of the nanowire volume fraction from 7% to over 35%. By choosing different crystallographic orientations of the GaP substrate, metamaterials are designed with different nanowire orientations. The anisotropy of the nanowire building blocks results in strong optical birefringence. Polarization interferometry demonstrates a very large polarization extinction contrast of 4 × 103 combined with a sharp angular resonance which holds promise for optical sensing. Nanowire metamaterials may find applications in photonics, optoelectronics, non-linear and quantum optics, microfluidics, bio-, and gas sensing.
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Published date: 11 April 2008
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semiconductor nanowires, metamaterials, gallium phosphide, photonics, alignment
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