This thesis investigates technologies directed towards developing photonic crystal display devices. A switching technology based on dye electrophoretic motion within a 1D porous photonic crystal was developed. Dissociated absorbing dye species were moved through the assembled device and reflectance was controllably altered by up to 0.4. Refinement of fabrication techniques yielded a slow switching device, whose time-resolved reflectance data was analyzed. A wavelength dependence of the device switching speed was observed. This phenomenon was described by modelling where bandgap effects match observation.
These devices may be improved by employing a 3D photonic crystal. We developed a nanoimprint lithography technique for seeding films deposited by GLAD for the fabrication of 3D square spiral photonic crystals. Parameters for patterning a precisely defined mould pattern using electron beam lithography were established. A large area diamond:1 square spiral photonic crystal was fabricated on the nanoimprinted seeds, and it exhibited a visible wavelength bandgap. / Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nanosystems
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1822 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Krabbe, Joshua Dirk |
| Contributors | Brett, Michael (Electrical and Computer Engineering), DeCorby, Ray (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Ivey, Douglas (Chemical and Materials Engineering) |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 3409624 bytes, application/pdf |
| Relation | J. D. Krabbe and M. J. Brett, “Photonic crystal switching by the electrophoretic movement of dye ions,” in Photonic and Phononic Crystal Materials and Devices X (A. Adibi, S.-Y. Lin, and A. Scherer, eds.), vol. 7609, SPIE, 2010., J. D. Krabbe and M. J. Brett, “Photonic crystal reflectance switching by dye electrophoresis,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 97, no. 4, p. 041117, 2010. |
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