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Optical Properties of Nanostructured Mesoporous Semiconductor Films

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Direct liquid crystal templating from non-ionic polyoxyethylene surfactants has been utilised to produce well-defined birefringent films of nanostructured cadmium telluride with mesoporous architectures of extended spatial periodicities. The template mixtures and films were characterised by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and polarising optical microscopy to ascertain the presence of a regular nanostructure. UV-VIS reflectance spectroscopy was employed to investigate the films' optical properties.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the EPSRC (grant code GR/S02662/01) to support this work. T. Gabriel acknowledges Merck and the EPSRC for the award of a CASE studentship.

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  1. School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    Iris Nandhakumar, Timothy Gabriel, Xiahong Li & George S. Attard

  2. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    Iris Nandhakumar, Matthew Markham, David C. Smith & Jeremy J. Baumberg

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Nandhakumar, I., Gabriel, T., Li, X. et al. Optical Properties of Nanostructured Mesoporous Semiconductor Films. MRS Online Proceedings Library 822, S5.6 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-822-S5.6

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