Sol-Gel Derived Optical and Photonic Materials
Almeida, Rui (Departamento de Engenharia Quimica, CQE, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisboa, PORTUGAL) / Martucci, Alessandro (Industrial Engineering Department, University of Padova, Padova Italy) / Santos, Luis (Assistant Professor, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal) / Estefania Rojas Hernandez, Rocio (Post-doctoral Research Scholar, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Sol-gel processing is a low temperature, low cost wet chemistry route to a range of different materials, particularly glassy and ceramic oxides, including nanoparticles and powders, fibers, thin films and membranes, or monoliths and composites. Thin films and coatings represent by far the most important category of sol-gel derived products with optical, electronic and magnetic functionalities, for example photoresist and dielectric spin-on-gla...