Bottom-up Fabrication of Multilayer Stacks of 3D Photonic Crystals from Titanium Dioxide

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• 作者：Roman Kubrin ; Robert M. Pasquarelli ; Martin Waleczek ; Hooi Sing Lee ; Robert Zierold ; Jefferson J. do Rosário ; Pavel N. Dyachenko ; Josep M. Montero Moreno ; Alexander Yu. Petrov ; Rolf Janssen ; Manfred Eich ; Kornelius Nielsch ; Gerold A. Schneider
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 27, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：16
• 页码：10466-10476
• 全文大小：750K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1944-8252

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A strategy for stacking multiple ceramic 3D photonic crystals is developed. Periodically structured porous films are produced by vertical convective self-assembly of polystyrene (PS) microspheres. After infiltration of the opaline templates by atomic layer deposition (ALD) of titania and thermal decomposition of the polystyrene matrix, a ceramic 3D photonic crystal is formed. Further layers with different sizes of pores are deposited subsequently by repetition of the process. The influence of process parameters on morphology and photonic properties of double and triple stacks is systematically studied. Prolonged contact of amorphous titania films with warm water during self-assembly of the successive templates is found to result in exaggerated roughness of the surfaces re-exposed to ALD. Random scattering on rough internal surfaces disrupts ballistic transport of incident photons into deeper layers of the multistacks. Substantially smoother interfaces are obtained by calcination of the structure after each infiltration, which converts amorphous titania into the crystalline anatase before resuming the ALD infiltration. High quality triple stacks consisting of anatase inverse opals with different pore sizes are demonstrated for the first time. The elaborated fabrication method shows promise for various applications demanding broadband dielectric reflectors or titania photonic crystals with a long mean free path of photons.