Soo Jin Chua | PubMed Health

PubMed2006

Colloidal woodpile structure: three-dimensional photonic crystal with a dual periodicity.

With planar photolithography and self-assembly techniques, multilayer colloidal crystals with a woodpile structure were fabricated. They represent a new kind of photonic crystals, that is, three-dimensional (3D) photonic crystals with a dual periodicity; one comes from the face-centered cubic (fcc) structure within the colloidal crystal strips and the other one results from the periodic arrangement of the colloidal crystal strips.

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PubMed2006

Nanosphere lithography from template-directed colloidal sphere assemblies.

Conventional nanosphere lithography holds the drawbacks of lacking precise control over the shape and architecture of the resultant nanostructures. In this work, nanoimprinting lithography was used to construct various desired patterns on a polymer film coated on a silicon substrate. The patterns were then used as templates to direct the self-assembly of silica colloidal spheres, forming colloidal assemblies with well-controlled sizes, shapes, and structures. Subsequent nanosphere lithography using template-directed colloidal sphere assemblies resulted in complex nanostructures that can not be obtained using the conventional nanosphere lithography method.

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