Sol-gel nanocomposites as functional optical materials

Abstract

Small particle processing opens a variety of interesting aspects for optical applications. For the utilization, the sol-gel process offers a variety of routes, like colloid synthesis, incorporating into sol-gel derived matrices and in combination with photopolyermizabel components patterning processes based on photolithography. In this paper, a summary over a new conception of colloid stabilization and colloid processing by multifunctional ligands and further processing routes for optical applications is given.