Sculptured thin films : nanoengineered morphology and optics / Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Russell Messier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lakhtakia, A. (Akhlesh), 1957- author.

Contributor:

Messier, R.

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.

Series:

SPIE monograph ; PM143.

Press monograph series ; PM143

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thin films.

Nanotechnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 299 pages) : illustrations, digital file.

Place of Publication:

Bellingham, Wash. : SPIE, [2005]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Sculptured thin films (STFs) are a class of nanoengineered materials with properties that can be designed and realized in a controllable manner using physical vapor deposition. This text, presented as a course at the SPIE Optical Science and Technology Symposium, couples detailed knowledge of thin-film morphology with the optical response characteristics of STF devices. An accompanying CD contains Mathematica programs for use with the presented formalisms. Thus, readers will learn to design and engineer STF materials and devices for future applications, particularly with optical applications. Graduate students in optics and practicing optical engineers will find the text valuable, as well as those interested in emerging nanotechnologies for optical devices.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Overview

1.1. Introduction

1.2. From columnar to sculptured thin films

1.3. Time-harmonic electromagnetic fields

1.4. Optical applications of STFs

1.5. Other applications

1.6. Prognostications.

Chapter 2. History of thin-film morphology

2.1. Synoptic view

2.2. Early history (pre-1940)

2.3. Intermediate history (1940-1970)

2.4. Recent history (1970-2004)

2.5. Low-adatom-mobility morphology.

Chapter 3. PVD methods for STFs

3.1. Important factors for STF deposition

3.2. STF deposition methods

3.3. Desirable future developments.

Chapter 4. Engineering of thin-film morphology

4.1. Continuum of morphology

4.2. From concepts to quantification

4.3. Matchstick morphology

4.4. Anisotropy due to atomic-level self-shadowing

4.5. Dynamic self-shadowing.

Chapter 5. Speculations on STF morphology

5.1. Deposition on nonplanar substrates

5.2. Controlled low-energy bombardment

5.3. Self-shadowing, again

5.4. Distribution functions.

Chapter 6. Macroscopic electromagnetism

6.1. Macroscopic Maxwell postulates

6.2. Constitutive relations

6.3. Constitutive relations of STFs

6.4. From the nanostructure to the continuum

6.5. Dielectric STFs.

Chapter 7. Optics of CTFs

7.1. Electromagnetic fundamentals

7.2. Reflection and transmission

7.3. Normal incidence.

Chapter 8. Optics of sculptured nematic thin films

8.1 Electromagnetic fundamentals

8.2. Reflection and transmission.

Chapter 9. Optics of chiral STFs

9.1. Electromagnetic fundamentals

9.2. Transfer matrix

9.3. Reflection and transmission

9.4. Normal incidence

9.5. Chiral STF half-space

9.6. Morphology and optics.

Chapter 10. Optical applications of chiral STFs

10.1. Optical filters

10.2. Optical sensors

10.3. Optical emitters

10.4. Tuning and bandwidth control

Appendix: Dyads and dyadics

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

"SPIE digital library."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-287) and index.

ISBN:

9780819480415

OCLC:

606699600

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