Electrospun polymer nanofibers as subwavelength optical waveguides incorporating quantum dots

Haiqing Liu; Joshua B. Edel; Leon M. Bellan; H. G. Craighead

doi:10.1002/smll.200500432

Electrospun polymer nanofibers as subwavelength optical waveguides incorporating quantum dots

Haiqing Liu, Joshua B. Edel, Leon M. Bellan, H. G. Craighead

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Abstract

The process of incorporating the semi-conductor quantum dots (QD) as integrated light sources into the polymer fibers to produce subwavelength- diameter optical waveguides was investigated. A suspended inorganic-organic (QD/SU8) heterostructure cylindrical waveguide was fabricated using a one-step electrospinning approach to demonstrate the use of semiconductor QD photoluminescence as an internal light source. It was shown that the subwave-length-sized SU8 nanofiber acted as a waveguiding structure with a length of at least several micrometers. It was found that this technique represents a new platform for integrating waveguide structures with silicon-based microelectronics to realize nanoscale optoelectronic integrated circuit technology.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	495-499
Number of pages	5
Journal	Small
Volume	2
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.200500432
State	Published - Apr 2006

Keywords

Nanofibers
Nanomanipulation
Photoluminescence
Polymers
Quantum dots

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Biomaterials
Engineering (miscellaneous)
Biotechnology
Medicine(all)

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