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PMID: 20507083 Owner: NLM Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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Empowering silicon (Si) with optical functions constitutes a very important challenge in photonics. The scalable fabrication capabilities for this earth-abundant, environmentally friendly material are unmatched in sophistication and can be unleashed to realize a plethora of high-performance photonic functionalities that find application in information, bio-, display, camouflage, ornamental, and energy technologies. Nanofashioning represents a general strategy to turn Si into a useful optical material and Si structures have already been engineered to enable light emission, optical cloaking, waveguiding, nonlinear optics, enhanced light absorption, and sensing. Here, we demonstrate that a wide spectrum of colors can be generated by harnessing the strong resonant light scattering properties of Si nanostructures under white light illumination. The ability to engineer such colors in a predetermined fashion through a choice of the structure size, dielectric environment, and illumination conditions opens up entirely new applications of Si and puts this material in a new light. |
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Linyou Cao; Pengyu Fan; Edward S Barnard; Ana M Brown; Mark L Brongersma |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. |
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Title: Nano letters Volume: 10 ISSN: 1530-6992 ISO Abbreviation: Nano Lett. Publication Date: 2010 Jul |
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Created Date: 2010-07-29 Completed Date: 2010-11-23 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 101088070 Medline TA: Nano Lett Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 2649-54 Citation Subset: - |
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Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA. |
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