Abstract

We demonstrate a cost-effective and high-throughput fabrication technique to deposit colloidal nanoparticles on a patterned polymer substrate using a capillary-assisted self-assembly method over a large area. In particular, we fabricate optical gratings using gold nanoparticles and a polymer substrate. We show the versatility of the technique over different nanoparticle diameters and grating periodicities. Through both experiments and simulations, we show enhanced transmission in the first-order diffraction of the gold-polymer grating as compared to the air-polymer grating. Our fabrication technique also enables the transfer of the nanoparticle pattern from the polymer substrate to any desired surface. Here we demonstrate the transfer of the nanoparticle grating structure to the tip of optical fibers.

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