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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
卷 25, 期 42, 页码 6644-6649出版社
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201502854
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- State of North Carolina
- National Science Foundation
- NASA Office of the Chief Technologist's Space Technology Research Opportunity-Early Career Faculty Grant [NNX12AQ46G]
- Air Force Research Laboratory
The refractive indices of naturally occurring materials are limited, and there exists an index gap between indices of air and available solid materials. With many photonics and electronics applications, there has been considerable effort in creating artificial materials with optical and dielectric properties similar to air while simultaneously being mechanically stable to bear load. Here, a class of ordered nanolattice materials consisting of periodic thin-shell structures with near-unity refractive index and high stiffness is demonstrated. Using a combination of 3D nanolithography and atomic layer deposition, these ordered nanostructured materials have reduced optical scattering and improved mechanical stability compared to existing randomly porous materials. Using ZnO and Al2O3 as the building materials, refractive indices from 1.3 down to 1.025 are achieved. The experimental data can be accurately described by Maxwell Garnett effective media theory, which can provide a guide for index design. The demonstrated low-index, low-scattering, and high-stiffness materials can serve as high-quality optical films in multilayer photonic structures, waveguides, resonators, and ultra-low-k dielectrics.
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