A Co-thermal Evaporator for the Production of Chalcogenide Thin Films for Photonics

  • Luther-Davies, Barry (PI)
  • Bulla, Douglas (CoI)
  • Choi, Duk (CoI)
  • Eggleton, Benjamin J (CoI)
  • Grillet, Christian (CoI)
  • Jackson, Stuart D (CoI)
  • Madden, Steve (CoI)
  • Monat, Christelle (CoI)
  • Moss, David J (CoI)
  • Pelusi, Mark (CoI)
  • Rode, Andrei (CoI)
  • Wang, Rongping (CoI)

    Project: Research

    Project Details

    Description

    Co-thermal evaporation is a new technique for depositing multi-component chalcogenide glass films directly from their elemental components which overcomes most of the known difficulties of preparing thin films of these important materials by conventional methods. This proposal seeks funding to purchase a custom co-thermal evaporation system with three thermal evaporators and one electron beam evaporator that can be operated simultaneously. The system will be used to deposit novel chalcogenide and chalco-halide films for applications in photonics most particularly all-optical signal processing; nano-photonics; and mid infra-red science. The system will also contribute to the understanding of more fundamental properties of these glasses.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date1/01/1031/12/10

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