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  • Editor: Alan E. Willner
  • Vol. 37, Iss. 6 — Mar. 15, 2012
  • pp: 1020–1022

Stamp printing of silicon-nanomembrane-based photonic devices onto flexible substrates with a suspended configuration

Xiaochuan Xu, Harish Subbaraman, Amir Hosseini, Che-Yun Lin, David Kwong, and Ray T. Chen  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 6, pp. 1020-1022 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.001020


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Abstract

In this Letter, we demonstrate for the first time (to our best knowledge) stamp printing of silicon nanomembrane (SiNM)-based in-plane photonic devices onto a flexible substrate using a modified transfer printing method that utilizes a suspended configuration, which can adjust the adhesion between the released SiNM and the “handle” silicon wafer. With this method, 230 nm thick, 30 μm wide, and up to 5.7 cm long SiNM-based waveguides are transferred to flexible Kapton films with >90% transfer yield. The propagation loss of the transferred waveguides is measured to be 1.1dB/cm. Scalability of this approach to transfer intricate structures, such as photonic crystal waveguides and multimode interference couplers with a minimum feature size of 200 nm and 2 μm, respectively, is also demonstrated.

© 2012 Optical Society of America

OCIS Codes
(130.1750) Integrated optics : Components
(220.4000) Optical design and fabrication : Microstructure fabrication
(220.4241) Optical design and fabrication : Nanostructure fabrication
(130.5296) Integrated optics : Photonic crystal waveguides

ToC Category:
Optical Design and Fabrication

History
Original Manuscript: September 28, 2011
Revised Manuscript: January 2, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: January 5, 2012
Published: March 8, 2012

Citation
Xiaochuan Xu, Harish Subbaraman, Amir Hosseini, Che-Yun Lin, David Kwong, and Ray T. Chen, "Stamp printing of silicon-nanomembrane-based photonic devices onto flexible substrates with a suspended configuration," Opt. Lett. 37, 1020-1022 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-37-6-1020

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