title: Lithography Assisted Fiber-Drawing Nanomanufacturing.
abstract: We present a high-throughput and scalable technique for the production of metal nanowires embedded in glass fibres by taking advantage of thin film properties and patterning techniques commonly used in planar microfabrication. This hybrid process enables the fabrication of single nanowires and nanowire arrays encased in a preform material within a single fibre draw, providing an alternative to costly and time-consuming iterative fibre drawing. This method allows the combination of materials with different thermal properties to create functional optoelectronic nanostructures. As a proof of principle of the potential of this technique, centimetre long gold nanowires (bulk Tm= 1064 °C) embedded in silicate glass fibres (Tg= 567 °C) were drawn in a single step with high aspect ratios (>104); such nanowires can be released from the glass matrix and show relatively high electrical conductivity. Overall, this fabrication method could enable mass manufacturing of metallic nanowires for plasmonics and nonlinear optics applications, as well as the integration of functional multimaterial structures for completely fiberised optoelectronic devices.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore.
authors.forename: Behrad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gholipour
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bastock
authors.affiliation: Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore.
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Khouler
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
authors.forename: Daniel W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Hewak
authors.affiliation: Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore.
authors.forename: Cesare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Soci