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By Jennifer Hicks
The outline I created for a book that I later wrote for Technical Insights, of Wiley & Sons.
Executive Summary
Introduction
The Growth of Photonics
Market Trends
Telecommunications
Optical
Manufacturing
Military
Medicine
Environment
Laser Specific
Advantages and Disadvantages of Photonics
The Role of Materials
Organization of This Report
PHOTONIC BANDGAPS
Photonic Band Gap Technologies
Colloidal suspension
Colloidal Expitaxy
Self-assembled polymer-based photonic crystals
The Use of Oil-in-Formamide Emulsions
Lithography and Etching
Aerosol Assisted Assembly
Laser Rapid Prototyping
Photonic Bandgap Materials
Opals
Silica
Cubic Graphite
3D Composites, Macroporous and Mesoporouos Materials
Band Gap Applications
Two-photon lasers
The Importance of Omni-directional Reflectors
Contacts
Patents for Band Gap Materials
Ceramic Materials
Types of Ceramics
Non-oxide ceramics
Oxides
Ceramic or Ceramic/Metal Composites
Applications and Markets for Ceramic Materials in Photonics
Ceramic Technologies and Processing
Epitaxial Processes
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE)
Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD)
Gelcasting
Plasma Processing
Pre-Ceramic Processing
Rapid Prototyping
Sol-gel Processes for Optical Ceramics
Thin-Film Production Techniques
Self-Assembly of Thin Films
Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD)
Spin-on Low K
Contacts
Ceramic Materials
Pizolectric ceramics
Suppliers
Rare-Earth Doped Materials
Erbium
Praseodymium
Neodium
Yttrium
Ytterbium
Barium and Titanium as Dopants
Other Dopants
Chromium-doped Crystals for Tunable Lasers
Suppliers
Ferroelectric Materials
Strontium Barium Niobate
Barium Titanium
Glasses
ZBLAN
Phosphate Glass
Silica Glass
Silicon Carbide (see semiconductor section)
Organic-modified Sol-gel Glasses
Vanadium Oxide Film Coatings
Silicon Nitride Base
Zirconium
Alkoxides
Contacts
Patents
Photonic Polymers (Plastics)
Applications and Markets
Polymer Processing Technologies
Deep Etch Lithography, Electroforming and Injection Molding (LIGA)
Preceramic processing
Lamination
Ink Jet Printer
Pinpoint Polymerization
Materials
Organosilicon polymers
Conjugated Polymers
Light Emitting Polymers
Applications and Markets for LEDs
Conjugated Polymer Materials
poly(p-phenylenevinylene) PPV
PPV
fac tris(2-phenylpyridine) iridium [Ir(ppy)3
Europium complexes
Contacts
Applications When Combined with Fluorescent Dyes
Conductive Polymers
Polycarbonates
Chiral Plastics
Bis (diphenylamino)dipehnylpolyenes
Polymer Waveguides
Polyimides
Polystyrene
Polymer Optic Fibers
Dendrimers
Dendrimer Synthesis
Conventional Synthesis
Convergent Synthesis
Advances in Dendrimers
Technologies to Watch
Parylene Deposition
Liquid Crystals
Applications and Markets
Technologies
Contacts
Patents for light-emitting polymers
Patents for Other Materials
Composite Materials
Markets for Composites
Composite Materials and Processes
Boron Nitride
Aerogel Nanocomposites
Aerogel Technologies
Ferromagnetic Composites
FerromagneV
Contacts
Patents
Silicon
The Advent of Lsi Materials
Porous Silicon
Market
Flat Panel Displays
Sensors
Light-emitting Diodes
Solar Cells
Optical Beam Steering
Compound Semiconductors
Technologies
Spark-processed Silicon
Anodic Etching and Immersion Scanning
Patterning Crystal Defects
Ion Implantation
Anodizing the Si-Base
Co-fabrication
Pyrolosis of Organic-Metals
Laser Assisted Molecular Beam Deposition
The Material: Porous Si
Use of Dopants
Erbium-Doped Porous Si
Silicon Oxynitride
Contacts
Patents
Compound Semiconductors
Market
Technologies
Recycling Waste
Radiant Energy Chemical Vapor Deposition
Laser Interferometric Lithography
High Aspect Ratio Dry Etching
Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
Markets for Lasers
Markets for LEDs
Optical Data Storage
Traffic Lights
As Medical Probes
Materials
Gallium arsenide
Technology
Blue Light Lasers
Blue Green Lasers
Red Lasers
Organic Lasers
Multiwave Length Lasers
Quantum Well Lasers
Extreme Laser Technology
Aluminum-free Lasers or InGaP lasers
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELS)
Wide Band Gap Materials
Gallium Nitride
Silicon Carbide
Indium Antimonide
Diamond and Related Materials
The Market and Applications
Magnetic Garnet
Safer Compound Semiconductor Processing
Contacts
Patents
Nonlinear Optical Materials
Markets
Materials
Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3)
Holographic Storage Technology
Hologram Fabrication
Operation
Market Applications
Arial Surface Mapping
Therapeutic Radiation
Optical Computing and Communications
Fiber-Optic Sensors
Machine Vision
Rapid Prototyping (Desktop Manufacturing)
Holographic Storage
Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs)
PMMA
Contacts
Patents
Nanotechnology
Technologies
Continuous Atom Laser Beam
Ultra Fast Laser Ablation
Photonic Resonators
Nanocomposites
Microcavities (Photonic Dots)
Glue
Quantum Wells
Fast Quantum Well Laser
Contacts
Patents
APPENDIX: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
General Materials Resources