Blue-shifting of circular Bragg phenomenon by annealing of chiral sculptured thin films.

The wavelength regime of the circular Bragg phenomenon, exhibited by chiral sculptured thin films fabricated using the serial bideposition technique, blue shifts as a result of post-deposition annealing. This blue shift can be attributed to the net effect of three material changes that occur during annealing: a small reduction in helical pitch, an increase in the relative permittivity of the column material changing from amorphous to crystalline, and a density reduction due to columnar thinning from the same amorphous-to-crystalline transition.

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