Photonic crystal inverse opal

FIGURE 15 (A) SEM image of PMMA opal photonic crystal (B) SEM image of ceria inversed opal photonic crystal made from the PMMA template. Reprinted with permission from Waterhouse and Waterland (2007). Copyright 2008 American Chemical Society. 

Johnson, N., McComb, D., Richel, A. et al., Synthesis and optical properties of opal and inverse opal photonic crystals, Synthet. Met., 116, 469, 2001. 

Schroden, R., Al-Daous, M., Blanford, C. et al.. Optical properties of inverse opal photonic crystals, Chem. Mater., 14, 3305, 2002. 

Li, Z.-Y. and Zhang, Z.-Q., Fragility of photonic band gaps in inverse-opal photonic crystals, Phys. Rev. B, 62, 1516, 2000. 

Schriemer HP, Van Driel HM, Koenderink AF, Vos WL (2001) Modified spontaneous emission spectra of laser dye in inverse opal photonic crystals. Phys Rev A 63 011801... 

Flong, J.C., Park, J.H., Chun, C., Kim, D.Y. Photoinduced tuning of optical stop bands In azopolymer based inverse opal photonic crystals. Adv. Funct. Mater. 17, 2462-2469 (2007)... 

Aguirre, CJ., Reguera, E., and Stein, A. (2010) Tunable colors in opals and inverse opal photonic crystals. Adv. Funct Mater., 20, 2565-2578. 

Yang, Z., Huang, X., Yang, G., Xie, Q., Li, B., Zhou, J., and Li, L. (2009) Preparation and photonic bandgap properties of lead lanthanum titanate inverse opal photonic crystals./. Alloys Compd, 468, 295-298. 

Most of the 3D photonic crystals fabricated via solution-based approaches are inverted opals, since the fabrication of inverse-opal photonic crystals and the evaluation of their optical properties both are relatively simple and easy. There have been a large number of studies that dealt with opal and inverse-opal photonic crystals in the literature, and it is impossible to cover most of the contents of the studies reporting inverse-opal (and opal) photonic crystals concerning their fabrication processes, characterization of the crystals, optical properties, and applications (Chen, 1999 Sun, 2000a Muller, 2000 McComb, 2001 Stein, 2001 Scroden, 2001 Astratov, 2002). Therefore, the contents of only a few of such studies as dealt with metal oxide inverted opals fabricated by the sol-gel process are presented here. 

As one may already recognize from the two examples shown above, inverse-opal photonic crystals produced by conventional methods usually contain not a little geometrical and/or physical disorders (non-uniformities) unavoidably introduced at every step of the... 

Li Z.Y., Zhang Z.Q. Photonic bandgaps in disordered inverse-opal photonic crystals. Adv. Mater. 2001 13 433 36... 

Waterhouse, G.l.N. and Waterland, M.R. (2007) Opal and inverse opal photonic crystals fabrication and characterization. Polyhedron, 26, 356-368. 

Figure 6.13. Non-close-packed inverse opal photonic crystal structwe.

Figure 6.14. Electrical tuning of Bragg reflection peak of nematic liquid crystal filled non-close packed inverse opal photonic crystal.

Aguirre Cl, Reguera E, Stein A Tunable colors in opals and inverse opal photonic crystals,... 

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