Investigation of the size effect for photonic crystals
- Authors
- Liu, M[Liu, M.]; Xu, W[Xu, W.]; Bai, J[Bai, J.]; Chua, CK[Chua, C. K.]; Wei, J[Wei, J.]; Li, Z[Li, Z.]; Gao, Y[Gao, Y.]; Kim, DH[Kim, D. H.]; Zhou, K[Zhou, K.]
- Issue Date
- 7-Oct-2016
- Publisher
- IOP PUBLISHING LTD
- Keywords
- photonic crystals; mechanical properties; indentation size effect; functional materials
- Citation
- NANOTECHNOLOGY, v.27, no.40
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NANOTECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 27
- Number
- 40
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/34791
- DOI
- 10.1088/0957-4484/27/40/405703
- ISSN
- 0957-4484
- Abstract
- Three types of photonic crystal ( PC) thin films have been prepared for the investigation of their deformation behaviors by nanoindentation tests at the microscale and nanoscale. Each type of PC thin film was composed of poly( methyl methacrylate) ( PMMA) nanoparticles with a uniform size. Another type of thin film was prepared by assembling nanoparticles with three different sizes. It was exciting to observe that the hardness and Young's modulus were significantly improved ( more than 15 times) in well-ordered PC thin films than disordered ones. Furthermore, size-dependent mechanical properties were observed for the three types of PCs. Such a size effect phenomenon can be attributed to the special polycrystalline material having a periodical face-centered cubic structure of PC thin films. Furthermore, the indentation size effect that shows that the indentation hardness decreases with an increasing indentation depth has also been observed for all four types of thin films. It is conjectured that the application of the PC structure to other functional materials may enhance their mechanical properties.
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