Fabrication and applications of in-fiber semiconductor and metal microspheres
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Sarathi, Tara
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
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Yoel Fink.
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Currently, the synthesis of semiconducting or metal microspheres has occurred via top-down approaches, such as through ball milling or e-beam lithography, or via bottom-up approaches, such as colloidal chemistry. Top-down approaches often generate a wide particle size distribution, while bottom up approaches often involve toxic and sometimes rather expensive precursors to generate the particles. By utilizing a phenomenon known as axial thermal capillary instability, highly homogeneous semiconducting and metal microspheres are able to be generated inside of a silica fiber in a simple, inexpensive, and non-toxic top-down approach. Further applications of these in-fiber microspheres, such as the band gap shift due to localized pressure on Germanium microspheres, and terahertz plasmonic resonances on Silver microspheres, were also studied.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2015. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Page 61 blank. Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-60).
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2015Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and EngineeringPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Materials Science and Engineering.