Citation: Tang Yunhui, Cabrini Stefano, Nie Jun, Pina-Hernandez Carlos. High-refractive index acrylate polymers for applications in nanoimprint lithography[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2020, 31(1): 256-260. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2019.04.012 shu

High-refractive index acrylate polymers for applications in nanoimprint lithography

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State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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The Molecular Foundry, LBNL, Berkeley, CA 94702, United States
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aBeam Technologies, Castro Valley, CA 94546, United States

niejun@mail.buct.edu.cn

CAPina-Hernandez@lbl.gov

Received Date: 4 March 2019
Revised Date: 23 March 2019
Accepted Date: 25 March 2019
Available Online: 10 January 2019

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The development of polymeric optical materials with a higher refractive index, transparency in the visible spectrum region and easier processability is increasingly desirable for advanced optical applications such as microlenses, image sensors, and organic light-emitting diodes. Most acrylates have a low refractive index (around 1.50) which does not meet the high performance requirements of advanced optical materials. In this research, three novel acrylates were synthesized via a facile one-step approach and used to fabricate optical transparent polymers. All of the polymers reveal good optical properties including high transparency (≥90%) in the visible spectrum region and high refractive index values (1.6363) at 550 nm. Moreover, nanostructures of these acrylate polymers with various feature sizes including nanogratings and photonic crystals were successfully fabricated using nanoimprint lithography. These results indicate that these acrylates can be used in a wide range of optical and optoelectronic devices where nanopatterned films with high refractive index and transparency are required.
- High refractive index,
- Acrylate,
- Facile synthesis,
- Nanostructure,
- Nanoimprint lithography
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