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Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Volume 553, 2012 - Issue 1: The 11th European Conference on Liquid Crystals (ECLC 2011)
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General Purpose Soft Template for Photonic Applications: From All-Optical to Electrical Reconfigurability

Luciano De Sio LICRYL (Liquid Crystals Laboratory, CNR-IPCF), Center of Excellence CEMIF.CAL and Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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Sameh Ferjani LICRYL (Liquid Crystals Laboratory, CNR-IPCF), Center of Excellence CEMIF.CAL and Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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Giuseppe Strangi LICRYL (Liquid Crystals Laboratory, CNR-IPCF), Center of Excellence CEMIF.CAL and Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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Cesare Umeton LICRYL (Liquid Crystals Laboratory, CNR-IPCF), Center of Excellence CEMIF.CAL and Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
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Roberto Bartolino LICRYL (Liquid Crystals Laboratory, CNR-IPCF), Center of Excellence CEMIF.CAL and Department of Physics, University of Calabria, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy
Pages 147-152 | Published online: 11 Jan 2012
 
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Abstract

In this paper we report on the realization and characterization of a polymer template sculptured in photosensitive material on a chemical inert surface, devoted to micro/nano-confinement of a wide range of organic components, with self-arrangement properties at the nanoscale. The high quality morphology of the polymeric micropattern arrays is obtained by combining a nano-precision level optical holographic setup and a multi-step chemico-physical process. The general purpose template represents the basic platform to be filled with different soft composite materials: Due to their self organization capabilities, light responsive Liquid Crystals (LC) and short pitch Cholesteric LC have been investigated.

Acknowledgment

LD and CU acknowledge the NANOGOLD project (Seventh Framework Programme Theme, NMP-2008-2.2-2, Nano-structured metamaterials grant agreement n° 228455) for partial financial support.

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