Aluminum nanowire polarizing grids: Fabrication and analysis

Vincent Pelletier; Koji Asakawa; Mingshaw Wu; Douglas H. Adamson; Richard A. Register; Paul M. Chaikin

doi:10.1117/12.698990

Aluminum nanowire polarizing grids: Fabrication and analysis

Vincent Pelletier, Koji Asakawa, Mingshaw Wu, Douglas H. Adamson, Richard A. Register, Paul M. Chaikin

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Abstract

We have produced aluminum wire grids with 33 nm periodicity using a thin film of a self-assembling cylinder forming diblock copolymer as a template. These grids, supported on fused quartz wafers, function as transmission polarizers for visible and near-ultraviolet lights and are a thin design, compared to commercially available polarization prisms. Their polarization efficiency is measured to be near 50% in the visible. Quantitative comparison with a new theoretical analysis of such wire grids indicates that they should perform well into the far UV. This analysis also explains a reversal in polarization direction at short wavelengths which we observe in our specimens. This is an expanded version of a previous paper.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Micromachining Technology for Micro-Optics and Nano-Optics V and Microfabrication Process Technology XII
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.698990
State	Published - 2007
Event	Micromachining Technology for Micro-Optics and Nano-Optics V and Microfabrication Process Technology XII - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: Jan 22 2007 → Jan 24 2007

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	6462
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X

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Other	Micromachining Technology for Micro-Optics and Nano-Optics V and Microfabrication Process Technology XII
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose, CA
Period	1/22/07 → 1/24/07

Keywords

Diblock copolymers
Nanowire grid
Polarizer
Self-assembly

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Pelletier, V., Asakawa, K., Wu, M., Adamson, D. H., Register, R. A., & Chaikin, P. M. (2007). Aluminum nanowire polarizing grids: Fabrication and analysis. In Micromachining Technology for Micro-Optics and Nano-Optics V and Microfabrication Process Technology XII Article 646217 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 6462). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.698990

Aluminum nanowire polarizing grids: Fabrication and analysis. / Pelletier, Vincent; Asakawa, Koji; Wu, Mingshaw et al.
Micromachining Technology for Micro-Optics and Nano-Optics V and Microfabrication Process Technology XII. 2007. 646217 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 6462).

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Pelletier, V, Asakawa, K, Wu, M, Adamson, DH, Register, RA & Chaikin, PM 2007, Aluminum nanowire polarizing grids: Fabrication and analysis. in Micromachining Technology for Micro-Optics and Nano-Optics V and Microfabrication Process Technology XII., 646217, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 6462, Micromachining Technology for Micro-Optics and Nano-Optics V and Microfabrication Process Technology XII, San Jose, CA, United States, 1/22/07. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.698990

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