Adaptive photonic metamaterials by self-assembly of liquid crystals in nanoporous solids

Start Page
544
End Page
545
Citation
11th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, META 2021
Contribution to Conference
11th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, META 2021  
Publisher Link
https://metaconferences.org/ocs/index.php/META21/META21
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85172455048
Publisher
N.N.
Self-organized multiscale porosity in terms of precise pore size, shape, and orientation has been achieved in many base materials. Here we exemplify that in combination with self-assembly of liquid crystals in pore space this provides particularly versatile pathways for the engineering of photonic metamaterials. We present temperature-dependent structuralcharacterizations of the thermodynamic and structural self-assembly behavior of the liquid crystals confined in nanoporous silicon, silica and alumina in combination with experiments on the resulting effective optics of the hybrid materials.
DDC Class
530: Physics