Nanoscale Design of Optical Materials

摘要

As the dimensions of a material approach the DeBroglie wavelength of the electron, fantastic unforeseen electronic effects manifest themselves - clearly another exiting aspect of nanotechonology. Similarly, the study of optical materials with dimensions on the order of or even less than the wavelength of light provides many exciting research opportunities and technological challenges for the field of optical materials and photochemistry. In many instances, nanoscale morphology can result in significantly different macroscopic properties, as in the difference between a standard light emitting diode and a (distributed Bragg reflector) laser diode. The University of North Carolina -