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ArticleKAUST Grant Number
KUS-C1-015-21Date
2010-07-14Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/600094
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Empowering silicon (Si) with optical functions constitutes a very important challenge in photonics. The scalable fabrication capabilities for this earth-abundant, environmentally friendly material are unmatched in sophistication and can be unleashed to realize a plethora of high-performance photonic functionalities that find application in information, bio-, display, camouflage, ornamental, and energy technologies. Nanofashioning represents a general strategy to turn Si into a useful optical material and Si structures have already been engineered to enable light emission, optical cloaking, waveguiding, nonlinear optics, enhanced light absorption, and sensing. Here, we demonstrate that a wide spectrum of colors can be generated by harnessing the strong resonant light scattering properties of Si nanostructures under white light illumination. The ability to engineer such colors in a predetermined fashion through a choice of the structure size, dielectric environment, and illumination conditions opens up entirely new applications of Si and puts this material in a new light. © 2010 American Chemical Society.Citation
Cao L, Fan P, Barnard ES, Brown AM, Brongersma ML (2010) Tuning the Color of Silicon Nanostructures. Nano Lett 10: 2649–2654. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl1013794.Sponsors
This work was in part sponsored by the Si-based Laser Initiative of the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) under the Air Force Aerospace Research OSR Award Number FA9550-06-1-0470 and supervised by LTC Gernot Pomrenke. This publication was also partially based on work supported by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (Award No KUS-C1-015-21), made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Journal
Nano LettersPubMed ID
20507083ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/nl1013794
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