Carbon nanofiber-based photonic crystals – fabrication, diffraction and ellipsometry investigations

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Carbon nanofibers were used as building blocks for two-dimensional photonic crystal slabs. Electron beam lithography and chemical vapor deposition were used to fabricate regular arrays and random patterns of nanofibers. The optical properties of the samples were investigated using a diffraction measurement setup, as well as reflection ellipsometry. We find that carbon nanofiber regularity has a strong effect on both diffractive and specular optical properties. This shows that ellipsometry can be a valuable tool to study properties of carbon nanofiber arrays. It also shows that carbon nanofibers provide an interesting candidate as building blocks for nanostructured optical components.

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  1. Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, SE-412 96, Sweden

    Robert Rehammar & Jari Kinaret

  2. Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Linköping, SE-581 83, Sweden

    Roger Magnusson & Hans Arwin

  3. Department of Physics, Göteborg University, Gothenburg, SE-412 96, Sweden

    Andreas Lassesson

  4. EaStCHEM, School of Chemistry, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, EH9 3JJ, UK

    Eleanor Campbell

  5. Division of Quantum Phases and Devices, School of Physics, Konkuk University, Seoul, 143-701, Korea

    Eleanor Campbell

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Rehammar, R., Magnusson, R., Lassesson, A. et al. Carbon nanofiber-based photonic crystals – fabrication, diffraction and ellipsometry investigations. MRS Online Proceedings Library 1283, 602 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1557/opl.2011.549

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