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Optical Thin Films Fabrication Techniques—Towards a Low-Cost Solution for the Integrated Photonic Platform: A Review of the Current Status

In the past few decades, several methods concerning optical thin films have been established to facilitate the development of integrated optics. This paper provides a brief depiction of different techniques for implementing optical waveguide thin films that involve chemical, physical, and refractive...

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Autores principales: Butt, Muhammad A., Tyszkiewicz, Cuma, Karasiński, Paweł, Zięba, Magdalena, Kaźmierczak, Andrzej, Zdończyk, Maria, Duda, Łukasz, Guzik, Malgorzata, Olszewski, Jacek, Martynkien, Tadeusz, Bachmatiuk, Alicja, Piramidowicz, Ryszard
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Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9267219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35806715
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15134591
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author Butt, Muhammad A.
Tyszkiewicz, Cuma
Karasiński, Paweł
Zięba, Magdalena
Kaźmierczak, Andrzej
Zdończyk, Maria
Duda, Łukasz
Guzik, Malgorzata
Olszewski, Jacek
Martynkien, Tadeusz
Bachmatiuk, Alicja
Piramidowicz, Ryszard
author_facet Butt, Muhammad A.
Tyszkiewicz, Cuma
Karasiński, Paweł
Zięba, Magdalena
Kaźmierczak, Andrzej
Zdończyk, Maria
Duda, Łukasz
Guzik, Malgorzata
Olszewski, Jacek
Martynkien, Tadeusz
Bachmatiuk, Alicja
Piramidowicz, Ryszard
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description In the past few decades, several methods concerning optical thin films have been established to facilitate the development of integrated optics. This paper provides a brief depiction of different techniques for implementing optical waveguide thin films that involve chemical, physical, and refractive index modification methods. Recent advances in these fabrication methods are also been presented. Most of the methods developed for the realization of the thin-films are quite efficient, but they are expensive and require sophisticated equipment. The major interest of the scientists is to develop simple and cost-effective methods for mass production of optical thin films resulting in the effective commercialization of the waveguide technology. Our research group is focused on developing a silica-titania optical waveguide platform via the sol-gel dip-coating method and implementing active and passive optical elements via the wet etching method. We are also exploring the possibility of using nanoimprint lithography (NIL) for patterning these films so that the fabrication process is efficient and economical. The recent developments of this platform are discussed. We believe that silica-titania waveguide technology developed via the sol-gel dip-coating method is highly attractive and economical, such that it can be commercialized for applications such as sensing and optical interconnects.
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spelling pubmed-92672192022-07-09 Optical Thin Films Fabrication Techniques—Towards a Low-Cost Solution for the Integrated Photonic Platform: A Review of the Current Status Butt, Muhammad A. Tyszkiewicz, Cuma Karasiński, Paweł Zięba, Magdalena Kaźmierczak, Andrzej Zdończyk, Maria Duda, Łukasz Guzik, Malgorzata Olszewski, Jacek Martynkien, Tadeusz Bachmatiuk, Alicja Piramidowicz, Ryszard Materials (Basel) Review In the past few decades, several methods concerning optical thin films have been established to facilitate the development of integrated optics. This paper provides a brief depiction of different techniques for implementing optical waveguide thin films that involve chemical, physical, and refractive index modification methods. Recent advances in these fabrication methods are also been presented. Most of the methods developed for the realization of the thin-films are quite efficient, but they are expensive and require sophisticated equipment. The major interest of the scientists is to develop simple and cost-effective methods for mass production of optical thin films resulting in the effective commercialization of the waveguide technology. Our research group is focused on developing a silica-titania optical waveguide platform via the sol-gel dip-coating method and implementing active and passive optical elements via the wet etching method. We are also exploring the possibility of using nanoimprint lithography (NIL) for patterning these films so that the fabrication process is efficient and economical. The recent developments of this platform are discussed. We believe that silica-titania waveguide technology developed via the sol-gel dip-coating method is highly attractive and economical, such that it can be commercialized for applications such as sensing and optical interconnects. MDPI 2022-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9267219/ /pubmed/35806715 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15134591 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Butt, Muhammad A.
Tyszkiewicz, Cuma
Karasiński, Paweł
Zięba, Magdalena
Kaźmierczak, Andrzej
Zdończyk, Maria
Duda, Łukasz
Guzik, Malgorzata
Olszewski, Jacek
Martynkien, Tadeusz
Bachmatiuk, Alicja
Piramidowicz, Ryszard
Optical Thin Films Fabrication Techniques—Towards a Low-Cost Solution for the Integrated Photonic Platform: A Review of the Current Status
title Optical Thin Films Fabrication Techniques—Towards a Low-Cost Solution for the Integrated Photonic Platform: A Review of the Current Status
title_full Optical Thin Films Fabrication Techniques—Towards a Low-Cost Solution for the Integrated Photonic Platform: A Review of the Current Status
title_fullStr Optical Thin Films Fabrication Techniques—Towards a Low-Cost Solution for the Integrated Photonic Platform: A Review of the Current Status
title_full_unstemmed Optical Thin Films Fabrication Techniques—Towards a Low-Cost Solution for the Integrated Photonic Platform: A Review of the Current Status
title_short Optical Thin Films Fabrication Techniques—Towards a Low-Cost Solution for the Integrated Photonic Platform: A Review of the Current Status
title_sort optical thin films fabrication techniques—towards a low-cost solution for the integrated photonic platform: a review of the current status
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9267219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35806715
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma15134591
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