Issue 9, 2019

Quantum dot based 3D printed woodpile photonic crystals tuned for the visible

Abstract

The development of dynamically responsive 3D photonic elements, which is crucial for the design of active integrated photonic circuits, requires the incorporation of material systems with fast and tunable response. To this end, semiconductor quantum dots have been widely used to perform as the active material system to be integrated; nonetheless, multiple-step processing is usually required for the active functions to be preserved, thereby restricting functionality of integrated 3D quantum photonic elements mostly to the infrared. Here, we report a simple scheme for the realization of visible light active 3D photonic devices by combining direct laser writing with two-photon absorption and in situ synthesis of cadmium sulfide (CdS) nanoparticles. The novel active 3D printable hybrid material is synthesized by crosslinking precursors of CdS quantum dots into a photo-structurable organic–inorganic zirconium–silicon hybrid composite integrating functional properties of both high spatial resolution and high third-order nonlinearity into the photonic matrix. As a proof-of-demonstration for 3D printed active photonic devices, woodpile photonic crystals with an inlayer periodicity down to 500 nm are successfully fabricated showing clear photonic stop bands in the visible spectral region, while for the first time, evidence of an ultrafast dynamic response in the visible is also demonstrated.

Graphical abstract: Quantum dot based 3D printed woodpile photonic crystals tuned for the visible

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Jūn. 2019
Accepted
05 Jūl. 2019
First published
09 Jūl. 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2019,1, 3413-3423

Quantum dot based 3D printed woodpile photonic crystals tuned for the visible

I. Sakellari, E. Kabouraki, D. Karanikolopoulos, S. Droulias, M. Farsari, P. Loukakos, M. Vamvakaki and D. Gray, Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 3413 DOI: 10.1039/C9NA00357F

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