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Photoresist Design for Elastomeric Light Tunable Photonic Devices
- Source :
- Materials, Materials; Volume 9; Issue 7; Pages: 525, Materials, Vol 9, Iss 7, p 525 (2016)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- MDPI, 2016.
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Abstract
- An increasing interest in tunable photonic structures is growing within the photonic community. The usage of Liquid Crystalline Elastomer (LCE) structures in the micro-scale has been motivated by the potential to remotely control their properties. In order to design elastic photonic structures with a three-dimensional lithographic technique, an analysis of the different mixtures used in the micro-printing process is required. Previously reported LCE microstructures suffer damage and strong swelling as a limiting factor of resolution. In this article, we reported a detailed study on the writing process with four liquid crystalline photoresists, in which the percentage of crosslinker is gradually increased. The experiments reveal that exploiting the crosslinking degree is a possible means in which to obtain suspended lines with good resolution, quite good rigidity, and good elasticity, thereby preserving the possibility of deformation by light irradiation.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Nanotechnology
02 engineering and technology
Photoresist
010402 general chemistry
Elastomer
lcsh:Technology
01 natural sciences
Article
Rigidity (electromagnetism)
liquid crystalline elastomers
General Materials Science
Elasticity (economics)
lcsh:Microscopy
Lithography
lcsh:QC120-168.85
lcsh:QH201-278.5
lcsh:T
business.industry
Light irradiation
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
Microstructure
0104 chemical sciences
direct laser writing
lcsh:TA1-2040
azobenzene containing polymers
lcsh:Descriptive and experimental mechanics
lcsh:Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Photonics
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
0210 nano-technology
business
lcsh:TK1-9971
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19961944
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Materials
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....912e029dfad4a138d443a7c4634670cc