Abstract

We have previously demonstrated a novel technique for autonomously forming a nanophotonic droplet (ND) [1-3], which is a micro-scale spherical polymer structure that contains coupled heterogeneous nanometric components, such as quantum dots (QDs) and organic dye molecules. The sort-selectivity and alignment accuracy of the nanometric components in each ND, and the related homogeneity of their optical functions, are due to a characteristic coupling and encapsulation process based on a phonon-assisted photo-curing method involving dressed-photon-phonon interactions [4]. The method only requires irradiating a mixture of components with light to induce optical near-field interactions between each component, and subsequent processes based on these interactions.

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