Inclination of polarized illumination increases symmetry of structures grown via inorganic phototropism.

Autor:	Meier MC; Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. nslewis@caltech.edu., Lewis NS; Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. nslewis@caltech.edu.; Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA., Carim AI; Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. nslewis@caltech.edu.; Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Materials horizons [Mater Horiz] 2023 Oct 02; Vol. 10 (10), pp. 4251-4255. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 02.
DOI:	10.1039/d3mh00839h
Abstrakt:	Inclination of unpatterned, linearly polarized illumination in the plane of the electric field oscillation effected increased directional feature alignment and decreased off-axis order in Se-Te deposits generated by inorganic phototropic growth relative to that produced using normal incidence. Optically based growth simulations reproduced the experimental results indicating a photonic basis for the morphology change. Modeling of the light scattering at the growth interface revealed that illumination inclination enhances scattering that localizes the optical field along the polarization plane and suppresses cooperativity in defect-driven scattering. Thus, the symmetry of the deposited structures increased as the asymmetry of the illumination increased, as measured by the inclination of the illumination incidence away from the surface normal.
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