Self‐assembled photonic structures

JF Galisteo‐López, M Ibisate, R Sapienza… - Advanced …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Photonic crystals have proven their potential and are nowadays a familiar concept. They
have been approached from many scientific and technological flanks. Among the many …

Materials aspects of photonic crystals

C Lopez - Advanced Materials, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Photonics, the technology of photons (as electronics is the technology of electrons),
promises to be the new century's driving force in the advancement of, mainly but not only …

Sphere templating methods for periodic porous solids

A Stein - Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2001 - Elsevier
This paper reviews methods that employ colloidal crystals, composed of monodisperse silica
or polymer spheres, to template periodic porous solids. The resulting structures can be …

Electrophoretic deposition to control artificial opal growth

M Holgado, F Garcia-Santamaria, A Blanco, M Ibisate… - Langmuir, 1999 - ACS Publications
In this work we propose and demonstrate a solution to the problems which arise when SiO2
monodisperse nanospheres of diameters under 300 nm or over 550 nm are used to obtain …

Manifestation of intrinsic defects in optical properties of self-organized opal photonic crystals

YA Vlasov, VN Astratov, AV Baryshev, AA Kaplyanskii… - Physical Review E, 2000 - APS
Self-organized synthetic opals possessing a face centered cubic (fcc) lattice are promising
for fabrication of a three-dimensional photonic crystal with a full photonic band gap in the …

Hydrogen‐assisted thermal evaporation synthesis of ZnS nanoribbons on a large scale

Y Jiang, XM Meng, J Liu, ZY **e, CS Lee… - Advanced …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Semiconductor nanoribbons of ZnS have been synthesized on a large scale via hydrogen‐
assisted thermal evaporation. The product is characterized by means of electron microscopy …

Structural coloring of aluminum

Y Liu, Y Chang, Z Ling, X Hu, Y Li - Electrochemistry communications, 2011 - Elsevier
A porous anodic aluminum oxide film with a regular periodic variation of pore density normal
to the surface is created by alternating the current density in current-controlled anodization …

Photonic bandgap materials: towards an all-optical micro-transistor

S John, M Florescu - Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe all-optical transistor action in photonic bandgap (PBG) materials doped with
active atoms and analyse the advantages of this system over other all-optical transistor …

Band structure and optical properties of opal photonic crystals

E Pavarini, LC Andreani, C Soci, M Galli… - Physical Review B …, 2005 - APS
A theoretical approach for the interpretation of reflectance spectra of opal photonic crystals
with fcc structure and (111) surface orientation is presented. It is based on the calculation of …

Three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystal templates for the infrared spectral range

V Mizeikis, KK Seet, S Juodkazis, H Misawa - Optics letters, 2004 - opg.optica.org
High-quality templates of three-dimensional woodpile photonic crystals are fabricated in
photoresist SU-8 by use of femtosecond laser lithography. The samples have smooth …