Fabrication of Microstructures Containing High Refractive Index Materials by Two-Photon Lithography

Abstract

Here we review our work on incorporating high refractive index inorganic materials into microstructures by two-photon lithography. We describe the direct writing of silver microstructures from dispersions of silver salt solutions, as well as the fabrication of silver nanoparticle embedded microstructures by a combination of UV exposure and thermal curing. The last section summarizes the functionalization of semiconductor quantum dots for their incorporation into microstructures. These materials pave the way for new investigations into photonic properties of hybrid inorganic nanomaterial incorporated microstructures.